------------------------------------------------- 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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the patients feel the glare of the nurse from the window‚ they know they are always being watched which makes them feel inferior and weak. Although the window is transparent‚ it represents a barrier between the patients and the power the nurse has. McMurphy challenges the nurse’s superior power and literally shatters the window to pieces. Bromden describes this act of rebellion. “The glass came apart like water splashing‚ and the nurse threw her hands to her ears. He got one of the cartons of cigarettes
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the fog is being lifted now; thereby‚ allowing him to come out of hiding and appreciate natural beauty (pg. 162). He manages to say‚ “thank you” (pg. 217) to McMurphy after he offers him gum‚ thereby conveying the message that he is gaining confidence in himself. The Chief having acquired full potential and strength‚ with the help of McMurphy manages to break through the wall and escape into freedom (pg. 324). All these instances just prove that he was never mentally ill. The hospital’s environment
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rules of Nurse Ratched. All of the patients submit to her ways until McMurphy is admitted to their ward. He has a rebellious nature which encourages the others to regain their individuality that had been suppressed by the Big Nurse asserting her power over them in an attempt to thrust them into conformity. McMurphy eventually saw that he became their leader and continuously rebelled‚ though it put himself at risk. In the end‚ McMurphy made the ultimate sacrifice to finally end Nurse Ratched’s tyranny
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help of McMuprhy they begin to rediscover themselves and test the power of the institution and Nurse Ratched. “In the group meetings there were gripes coming up that had been buried so long the thing being griped about had already changed. Now that McMurphy was around to back them up‚ the guys started letting fly at everything that had ever happened on the ward they didn’t like.” (18) McMurphy’s defiance of Nurse Ratched spark something inside the patients; that she is just a human and could be stood
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“One flew over the cuckoos nest” Is based on conformity. Is this more dangerous than not? What can the characters loose if they choose to do so? If they then choose‚ what is at stake for they’re lives and future? Even if they where to choose from the above‚ would that still help them in the long run while occupying the asylum? There are many different ways to go about this‚ I’ve given you a few examples. Members of society amongst the ward are faced with blending in‚ conforming. But what is the
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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 who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line‚ to follow their rules‚ to live like they want you to” (Kesey 57). This
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hospital somewhere in Oregon. She runs all business and daily life in the asylum to her every whim and rules the ward by fear and manipulation. This has gone on for as long as the narrator‚ Chief Bromden‚ can remember. However a new patient‚ Randle McMurphy‚ enters the hospital and begins to wreak havoc upon the system put in place by the nurse. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Keasey‚ the author demonstrates the use of psychotropic drugs and its effects in conjunction with counterculture through
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Ken Kesey was born on September 17th‚ 1935 in La Junta‚ Colorado. While he was in a fellowship to Stanford ’s Writing Program he worked at a Californian Veterans ’ Administration hospital in the psychiatric ward as a night guard ("KnowledgeNotes Study Guide"‚ par. 1). Kesey ’s first published book was One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest‚ which was published in 1962. Many of the experiences Kesey endured while working at the hospital were inspirations for the book ("KnowledgeNotes Study Guide"‚ par.
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How are the characters in Ken Kesey’s‚ “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” affected by fear? In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Ken Kesey uses several characters to demonstrate the theme that a person must fight his fears in order to remain healthy and sane. Kesey uses the characters Billy Bibbit‚ Dale Harding and most importantly Chief Bromden to illustrate this theme. Fear is a key theme in the book‚ from the first line‚ “they’re out there” we can see how the narrator is paranoid and
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