Compare And Contrast One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and in the movie The Stepford Wives, there are many similarities relating to a disarranged society. Both works contain oddly acting people who only behave in a way that their community tells them is acceptable. Joanna Eberhart is the leader in The Stepford Wives who wants to alert the wives of what is occurring in their town. McMurphy is the leader in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest he wants all the men in the ward to drive Nurse Ratched crazy to win the battle against her and leave the ward. Both the novel and the movie have many similarities, for instance, the ward meetings and the Women’s club meetings both cause more issues than before the meeting happen. In the movie when the women have new
They cannot even talk back to their husbands because their minds are not capable of registering the words. Like in the group meetings when Joanna and Bobby are talking about how something is wrong in the town the women start to talk about a certain wax that makes your floors shine. Their minds cannot even process anything that Joanna and Bobby are saying, they are not themselves they only seem to be themselves; their soul is gone only their exterior appearance is left. Just like when a patient in the goes to the shock shop, they lose themselves their brain cannot process things very well. They don't know how to be themselves, during that transplant they lose what makes up them as a person. One patient on the ward cannot even stand or speak on his own because he goes through the shock shop, “Now he’s nailed against the wall in the same condition they lifted him off the table for the last time, in the same shape, arms out, palms cupped, with the same horror on his face” (67 Kesey). Ellis is a patient who came in for an electroshock treatment and came out as a vegetable as the patients call it. He is nailed to the wall and has no control over anything in his body, the only thing that looks normal of Ellis is his outer appearance. On the inside though his brain is fried to bits and cannot move his body at
In the novel Kesey clearly draws a picture that Nurse Ratchet is the leader of the patients, she controls everything about their daily lives. Diz is in control of the Men's Society and runs the roots into replacing the women of Stepford so the men have trophy wives who always try to look nice, cook a meal for them every night and always are cleaning-never stop. Both of these leaders of the communities over abuse the power that is given to them, they never consider the effects is bears on the victims of the harsh treatment. Nurse Ratchet never really cares if a patient is going to come out a vegetable, and Diz does not care about killing the women either he point-blank kills Joanna “because they can” as he says in the