Ratched is in charge of the mental patients‚ and she is harsh to all of them. Randle McMurphy arrives in the ward as a transfer‚ and most people believe something is seriously off about him. First of all‚ he fakes his insanity to get out of prison. He tells the other men how he enjoys gambling and women. During their time in the ward‚ the
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various control issues. Before McMurphy is committed to mental hospital‚ Nurse Ratchet ran a submissive ward and did not have much trouble from anyone. The patients had viewed her as an angel. This is
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character is R.P McMurphy who is transferred from the Pendleton Work Farm to the mental hospital. The head nurse Ms.Ratched is a character who represents authority. The arrival of McMurphy with his personality and rebellious ways interrupt the hospitals stability‚ by questioning authority. Creating rivalry between the two and unfolding the traumatic story. The patients in the story are simply having trouble in coping with the problems and stresses thrown at them by society. McMurphy refuses to adapt
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the staff. The first thing that McMurphy notices about the ward is that the Big Nurse emasculates and weakens the men. He calls her a "ball-cutter" (p. 58)‚ and Harding agrees. In other words‚ the ward is like a matriarchal society which castrates men. This is graphically symbolized by the death of Rawler‚ who commits suicide by castrating himself and bleeding to death. In a less literal manner‚ this is what is happening to all the patients. In contrast‚ McMurphy is totally open about sex and enjoys
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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 Nurse Ratched‚ the caretaker of the patients‚ in an effort to help them in his own way. Kesey illustrates
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hospital through his descriptions of the oppressed and the oppressors‚ in and out of his medicated state. For example‚ he notices that there is a higher power above Nurse Ratchet‚ which symbolizes society‚ whom he calls the “Combine”. When he speaks to McMurphy for the very first time‚ he says “they (the Combine) start as quick as they see you’re gonna be big and go to working and installing their filthy machinery when you’re little‚ and keep on and one and on till you’re fixed!” This shows that he believes
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us to not overlook his hallucinations; he basically wants us to look deeper into what he sees. Chapter 3: “Who’s the bull-goose loony here?” Page 18 This quote is said by McMurphy to the patients in the ward. He wanted to know who was the one in charge; the leader of the loony’s‚ the craziest out of all of them. McMurphy has a personality of
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be like the desire for control. When McMurphy comes into the ward the first thing he does in belittle people in his own sense of the way by playing on their emotions. He makes people feel uncomfortable and then wants to know who the “bull goose loony” is ‚ as in who the craziest person there is‚ because he wants to overshadow that person. * Another is how institution run the risk of being oppressive and corrupt. Randall Patrick McMurphy McMurphy is charismatic‚ sexual‚ and boisterous
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Kesey’s renowned novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ is a tale of self actualization under manipulation and deceit of institutions and repression. Though the novel may be original in it’s setting and characters‚ the origin of the plot is one as old as time. Many parallels can be drawn from Kesey’s piece to others such as Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men‚ Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ the Christian Bible‚ and‚ perhaps most notably‚ Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. The themes and central
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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
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