and the Nurse want total power but they have different ruling styles. The nurse rules with an iron fist and consolidates her power with threats of lobotomies or trips to the “shock shop” and by keeping the patients as unknowledgeable as possible. Bromden offers some insight into the matter‚ “They got enough of those things they call pills down me so I don’t know a thing till I hear the ward door open”(8). The nurse keeps her patients uniformed so that they have no choice but to follow her blindly
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------------------------------------------------- Vocabulary * Ornery- of a stubborn and mean spirited nature. “The Acutes look spooked and uneasy when he laughs‚ the way kids look in a schoolroom when one ornery kid is raising too much hell…” (P. 14) * Pinochle- a popular card game played by two‚ three‚ or four persons‚ with a 48-card deck. "Hello‚ buddy; what ’s that your playin ’? Pinochle?" (P. 17) * Oxblood- a deep dull-red color. "His face and neck are the color of oxblood leather
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Falling into Theory - One Flew Over the CuckOo’s Nest (Question #2) Psychoanalytic Approach Textual Passage Nurse Pilbo: Take your medicine‚ Mr. McMurphy McMurphy: What’s in the horse pill? Nurse Pilbo: It’s good for you. Don’t get angry‚ Mr. McMurphy McMurphy: I’m not getting angry‚ Nurse Pilbo. I just don’t like taking anything when I don’t know what it is. I don’t want anyone slippin’ me saltpeter‚ if you know what I mean. Nurse Ratched: That’s okay‚ Nurse Pilbo. If Mr. McMurphy does not
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One Flew Over the Cuco’s Nest Theme Analysis Rebellion Against Authority and Conformism The psychiatric ward where the novel takes place can be seen as a microcosm of society. Society is presented as a ruthlessly efficient machine (the Combine) that makes everyone conform to its narrow rules. All individuality is squeezed out of people‚ and the natural‚ joyful expressions of life are suppressed. In the hospital ward‚ the representative of society is the Big Nurse. She embodies order‚ efficiency
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boy"‚ that excites them and gives them hope that they do not have to be in the ward and that they can live out in the real world. He shows everyone a whole new light; he lives life with no regrets and to his fullest since he only lives once. Chief Bromden represents as a magician. We never know what he is going to do or how he will react. Everyone in the ward thinks he is useless and that he is blind; when he really is not. He has been putting on an amazing show for everyone and the staff of
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courage. There are several characters in the book that possess this trait. Chief Bromden is a specific example of a patient that was courageous. Chief is a very shy person; he has the entire hospital under the impression that he is deaf for the majority of the story. However‚ as the story progresses‚ with guidance from McMurphy‚ Chief realizes that being passive will not help him. During a bet that McMurphy has with the patients‚ Chief feels
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Ratched and the other patients‚ McMurphy confidently tried to convince Ratched to change the schedule and also allow the patients to watch the World Series. Fighting with a struggle‚ he finally gathered the majority of votes he needed including Chief Bromdens. His well put out efforts were shot down by the Nurse. Nurse Ratched selfishly served her own egotistical needs rather than the therapeutic needs of the patients. She was always calm‚ cold and never feared a thing. She would make sure if something
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“This is one of the most fantastic novels of individualism pitted against the vast depersonalization of industrial society ever written. Ken Kesey has an extraordinary grasp of the challenges faced by us all in modern civilization‚ and he is able to convey his ideas through some of the richest imagery I have ever read.” ‘Ann’ from ‘goodreads.com’ Good morning English panel chair. My name is Chelsea Pryde and today I will persuade you to pick the novel‚ ‘One flew over the cuckoos nest’ to be in
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Nurse Ratched – the Big Victim Ken Kesey‚ via his narrator Chief Bromden‚ introduces the battle between individuality and conformity as well as the issue of mental illness. What a lot of people overlook is the aspect of exploitation of women in the book. The novel was written in the early 1960s‚ when the second-wave feminism began‚ which expanded the focus to a variety of aspects such as family‚ workplace‚ and sexuality‚ and devoted to gain social equality regardless of sex (Rampton). In response
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of characters. However‚ both novels contain a theme of coming of age for the characters as expressed through situational irony‚ sexual themes‚ and the motif of laughter. The situational irony for Chief Bromden in the beginning portrays his initial way of going about in the mental hospital. Chief Bromden is the largest man in the building‚ and yet he has the least amount of power. McMurphy comments on the way that Nurse Ratched seems to cut off power from the patients. He relates her to the “people
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