Is Mcmurphy A Hero

The definition of a hero is “a person who is admired or idealized for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey shows a blurb on the back of the book that refers to him as “heroic,” this statement is false through textual evidence in the novel. McMurphy is not heroic because he is destructive towards the people he has hurt before going to the mental ward, as well as tampering with the others recovery by taunting the nurse and trying to break her down which prevents treatment for the patients that are actually mentally ill, and lastly his actions are a direct cause of a patient committing suicide. These actions by McMurphy label him as an unheroic person.
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McMurphy is destructive to the mental state of the patients in the ward by attempting to break nurse ratchet as he bets the other patients he will do, when in fact him breaking the one sane person there will turn the ward into chaos and prevents treatment for the patients that are actually mentally ill. A hero is someone whose actions are for the betterment of others, and not themselves like McMurphy's actions, especially for the men that are there voluntarily in search of treatment. When McMurphy is talking to the other patients about the nurse he throws out a proposition saying he can break her. “Any of you sharpies here willing to take my five bucks that says that I can get the best of that woman-before the weeks up-without her getting the best of me?” (OFOTCN pg. 66) McMurphy tells the other patients that he will break nurse ratchet and make her insane before the week's up, and if he does then the other patients owe him 5 dollars. McMurphy breaking Nurse ratchet does more harm than good to everyone in the facility. The only person that this would benefit be McMurphy because now he has a pocket full of five dollar bills. Breaking Nurse ratchet down is unheroic because it made the only sane person controlling them to lose her mind which causes disorder and dismay among the patients, this in turn
Because of McMurphy a man took his own life after in a drunken stupor he was encouraged by McMurphy to sleep with one of the women he snuck in. The next morning Nurse takes order and sends Billy Bibbit, the one guilty of sleeping with the women to the doctor's office, where he took his own life.“I left him in your office. Judging from his present state, i suggest you see him right away. He's been through a terrible ordeal. I shudder to think of the damage that must have been done to the poor boy.” (OFOTCN pg. 273) The nurse is generally concerned with Billy's health as he's been rejected by a women before when he proposed, this in turn making him have feelings towards the women he slept with but she will never reciprocate those deep feelings. McMurphy is the sole reason Billy Bibbit took his own life, instead of talking him out of suicide he was the one that opened the door to it. McMurphy set Billy up to sleep with a woman when he was not in the correct state of mind which was even more so elevated by the alcohol, something no hero would do. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey shows a blurb on the back of the book that refers to him as “heroic,” this statement is false through the numerous actions Mcmurphy takes throughout the novel. McMurphy is not heroic because he is a threat towards underage women,