The Fifth Child: Patient #4036

Our creative project centres on Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child and attempts to answer the conundrum between nature and nurture. By assuming the roles of psychologists at a research facility, this project is formatted as a medical case study using Ben Lovatt as a subject, along with additional data from the text. Through this, we hope to show that nurture inevitably plays the bigger role in affecting the behaviour and disposition of an ‘ill’ patient like Ben