House Analysis

Hey guys!! Once again, I am back with a blog that allows me to babble in nonsense for 600 words or more. I honestly think I have forgotten how to write them, but it’s only been a month so the routine can’t be too far away in my mind. Today I am going to tell you guys about a favorite character of mine on a favorite show of mine. He is the total opposite of what you would think about in his profession. The show is called House. The name is simple and sweet yet nothing you would expect from the name suggests the show’s content or context. The main character (the person I will be analyzing), his name is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) hence the show’s name. Gregory House is a mockup per say of Sherlock Holmes but the medical version instead of the detective version. He works in a fictional Princeton Plainsboro teaching hospital with handpicked young diagnosticians, Robert Chase played by Jesse Spencer, Allison Cameron played by Jennifer Morrison, and Eric Foreman played by Omar Epps. Dr. House is an infectious disease specialist who solves the medical mysteries with his instinct and unconventional or rapid bipolar thinking. House is so different than any fictional doctor I have ever experienced. He is brutally honest, makes what seems like various false accusations such as patients’ spouses cheating on them, parents not belonging to their children biologically, and overall claiming they are stupid when they do not trust his medical opinion. He is also quite antisocial and has trauma tucked and hidden away from becoming a “crippled” individual as he calls himself. He walks with a cane and has a limp because his blood flow was cut off to his thigh muscle in one of his legs, and he lost that leg. Even though he won’t admit it he deals with the constant looks, stares, and judgement of being a “crippled” person and wants to wreak havoc on the world, because he didn’t have to be this way. He was not born this way and it was fully preventable but his doctors did not know where to look now he makes it his place to take on the most interesting, unimaginable, and unsolvable cases so that people don’t end up like him, but he has a funny way of showing it considering he hates even looking at patients who have rashes, common colds, or back aches so people think he is a bad doctor however he is quite the opposite. House also never visits his patients unless he desperately needs to and that does not include when they start rapidly declining, it only includes when he finds out they are lying. He hates liars, and never lies himself. When heWhen he finds his patients are lying, he usually confronts them, and the lies desperately affect his treatment, so when he figures out the truth, he can properly treat his patients and get them out of his way.s not visit them because he believes it affects his ability to be a doctor, because as he says and I quote to parents It’s your job to hold his hand, it’s my job to make him better. Getting attached to the patients, forming bonds, and having conversations draws his attention away from the patient’s care and gets them too emotionally involved. People may think you need to care about people or patients to be a good doctor or to help people but that is not true at all. You do what’s best for them by getting them better and you give them the rest of their life to live. That is how House thinks and I fully agree with him. People think he is cold and unworthy of his high stature and medical listen just because he won’t sit around and listen to a patient’s personal life, but he believes that getting too involved with death, analyzing and embracing every death in the hospital will slowly torture and kill him. It won’t allow him to do his job. I love his character, there isn’t a case that goes unsolved and there isn’t anyone who suffers in his hospital but him and I sincerely enjoy that. 

Author: Aleria Holmes

Aleria Holmes I'm a Senior Literary Student at MSA with a passion for writing much stronger than a hobby. After high school I plan to attend Columbia University to major in Creative Writing (screenwriting specifically) and minor in Psychology. I love what I do and I hope to make a career out of it someday.

3 thoughts on “House Analysis”

  1. I have heard and seen a million clips from this show but I didn’t even know the title so this was very interesting.

  2. I honestly love and hate House at the same time. I find him to be the funniest character on the show, but at the same time, he can be a jerk at times.

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