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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other patients that her way is the only option. The reader is then finally introduced to the last main character who is Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy is the game changer in the ward. He was involuntarily submitted and extremely detests the way that Ratched is running the ward. The novel is in essence a power struggle between Ratched and McMurphy. The first milestone that McMurphy succeeds in is
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When Chief is describing his or other people’s size‚ he is portraying their confidence and their power within the ward. That is why at first‚ he sees himself as small‚ McMurphy as huge‚ and Nurse Ratched as the "Big Nurse”; ultimately‚ as he himself regains his self-confidence‚ he
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Even the activities were not that energizing. That was what McMurphy was trying to change. He wasn’t satisfied of how the hospital staffs were to the patients. A hero is considered to be any man noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose; especially‚ one who has risked or sacrificed his life. This describes one of the main characters in the highly acclaimed novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ by Ken Kesey. Randle McMurphy is the hero of this novel because he stood firmly against oppressive
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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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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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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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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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conducted into the characters of both Chief Bromden and Randle McMurphy‚ it is easy to conclude that both have characteristics and preform actions that can be considered heroic. Physically both Bromden and McMurphy are huge. But‚ unlike McMurphy‚ Bromden does not have the self-confidence to match his gigantic exterior. This contrast in personality is due to the idea that Bromden has constantly been maltreated for the entirety of his life. McMurphy‚ on the other hand‚ refuses to be brought down because of
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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 want to take his medicine‚ we will just have to arrange for him to have
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