One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Character Analysis Essay

In the story One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the protagonist Randall Patrick McMurphy faked his insanity so he could go to a mental hospital instead of facing the crimes he committed. He goes in with his mind set on his goal without a care for anyone else, at least, that’s how it was in the beginning. Randall’s choices could be seen as both wise and unwise. Randall teaches the patients gambling and smuggles women in for them. This is his plan to take control of the hospital, but he would have to first go through the dictator, Nurse Ratched. Depending on how it is looked at, his choice to teach the patients could be seen as both wise and unwise. He is teaching them something they would not have learned and could get their trust, but on the
He stops going for his goal and starts to help everyone else. This could be seen as wise and unwise because he helped the patients see things they never would have before, but he could become actually insane. Billy Bibbit is a patient he helped pretty tremendously. Randall smuggled in a women named Candy in to see Billy because it made him happy. He saw the joy Billy had being with Candy and brought her to him. This was not the wisest choice for Randall because Nurse Ratched soon found out and Billy. That resulted in his suicide. Although Randall only wanted to help, it killed Billy. After being caught, Randall tries to kill Nurse Ratched but fails and is pulled off. In the end, Randall has a lobotomy and becomes a “vegetable”. Bromden later kills him the same night. Randall who once had ill intentions, grew to like the patients and wanted to help because of their lack of knowledge on how to enjoy themselves in life. He had only the best intentions for them and meant no harm when he was trying to help, but the best intentions could lead to the most terrifying