authoritarian figure‚ Nurse Ratchet‚ through the eyes and ears of the narrator‚ Chief Bromden. Chief Bromden‚ or “Chief Broom”‚ is the son of Chief Tee Ah Millatoona‚ which means “the pine that stands the tallest on the mountain‚ and a white woman
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Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a book about a group of people in a mental health institution. The narrator of the story is a man by the name of Chief Bromden. He is the son of a Native American man and a white woman. The book leads the reader to believe he is pretending to be insane and deaf‚ but at times he does suffer from hallucinations. In the book‚ the chief appears to suffer from schizophrenia. He believes the evil is from the “combine” and attributes machine like proponents to people and things
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Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey‚ a story is told about a new patient‚ McMurohy‚ who arrives into an asylum ward and causes trouble. Much like the world today‚ there is a force of individuality and a force of conformity. In the book‚ the main character‚ Chief Bromden‚ must decide on whether he wants to become a minion to society or have his own free will. When society forces social norms and demands obedience‚ there is an opposing force of individuality that rebels back within them. In this community‚ a person
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be made. Throughout Chief Bromden’s point of view along the novel‚ readers depict ideas of patients live’s within the ward under the administrator’s harsh regimen and consequences in the result of the patients’ rebellion against authority. The patients’ lives within the ward is revolutionizing. According to Sherman Alexie “this book‚ where the Indian is the eyes through which we see this entire world‚ is certainly revolutionary” (Studio 360). In the book‚ Chief Bromden relates events which
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control. She pursues power with intensity and is very successful at getting people to do what she wants. Although Nurse Ratched is an antagonist of the worst kind in this book‚ even Chief knows that she’s simply the human face of the Combine – machine that Chief imagines is society. In other words‚ according to Chief‚ the system is larger than Nurse Ratched; she is only part of the system. She happens to be the patients’ direct link to the mechanical system‚ but she is not the system itself. This
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So they ended up going and signing their selves into mental institutions. The patients didn’t know that once they signed in that they couldn’t leave. This is where nurse Ratched immediately takes their freedom away. A patient by the name of Chief Bromden is a
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Kesey’s experiences in a mental institution urged him to tell the story of such a ward. We are told this story through the eyes of a abnormally large Indian who everyone believes to be deaf and dumb named Chief in his novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest". Chief Bromden also referred to as "Chief Buh-room" is a patient in an Oregon psychiatric hospital on the ward of Mrs. Ratched‚ she is the symbol of authority and female domination throughout the novel. This ward forms the backdrop for the rest
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Unlike McMurphy‚ Chief Bromden is a follower and is also stuck comfortably in the safety of the ward’s fog. McMurphy on the other hand is a leader and is not in the stuck the fog in the mental ingestion‚ but is trying to get the others out of the comfort of the fog. An instance of such event‚ is when McMurphy refuses to clean during the afternoon and pulls up a chair‚ waiting for the baseball game‚ staring at a turned off TV screen. Slowly one by one the patient’s pulled a chair up‚ waiting for the
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How does the author use the interactions between the central character and two other characters to explore ideas in the text? The protagonist of a text acts upon other characters within the novel and help express themes and ideas through these collaborations. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey the protagonist‚ Randle Patrick McMurphy‚ comes into the psychiatric ward that manipulates patients to conform to their rules where he is the black sheep of them all. He constantly challenges
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is able to get a new day room in an old tub room that is away from the Nurse’s station and he is also able to get some of the acutes and Chief Bromden out on a fishing trip. These setting changes help some of the patients escape from Nurse Ratched’s control and from the fear that she has instilled in them. By the end of the novel‚ because of McMurphy‚ Chief Bromden is able to change the setting for himself and eventually escapes from the hospital
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