Through a critical analysis of two films‚ discuss how they explore philosophical issues. During this essay‚ I will Identify and critically articulate basic philosophical concepts and themes in two films‚ one from the lecture programme and another of my choice. I will also undertake independent study using appropriate resources and summaries and communicate my findings. Existentialism A post second world war movement‚ mainly centered around artistic and creative intellectuals. A
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written in 1962‚ introduces us to Randall McMurphy. He too struggles with inner demons and mental illness. He is not found in a castle‚ but psychiatric ward which represents a microcosm of American society in the 1960s. McMurphy gambles‚ swears‚ and makes sexual remarks‚ all in which are forbidden. His defiance symbolizes a spark for change creating a ripple effect. McMurphy refuses to cooperate with the rules in his enclosed society. Much like Hamlet‚ McMurphy battles those in power. His fight
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change and freedom‚ a disaster occurs and the freedomer leaves. In Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Randall McMurphy is this person. He tries to help the patients by allowing them to stand up for themselves. This change helps people to either stand up or return living with restrictions. Nurse Ratched‚ the antagonist of Cuckoo’s Nest sends the patients who rebel to the Electroshock Therapy room. As means of something‚ this causes McMurphy to be even angrier towards her which sends him to get a lobotomy. This is Cuckoo’s
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destructive and tries to talk his way through and out of everything. That man is named McMurphy‚ Randall Patrick McMurphy. Sent to an Oregon State mental ward to avoid 30 days of imprisonment on a work farm. Imagine a man like McMurphy and ask yourself how he would ever be considered a Christ-like character. Throughout the book there are many events‚ symbols‚ and dialogue foreshadowing the relation of McMurphy to Christ. Many occurences symbolize the beginning life and death by crucifixion of Jesus
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place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is chief Bromden‚ also known as chief Broom; a half staff assumes is deaf and dumb. Randall Patrick McMurphy is a new patient who came from a work farm. He suggested a party‚ but got cought by the Big Nurse. He received a lobotomy. Chief learned from McMurphy. At the end‚ he escaped the hospital and returning to society to battle the combine. In both novels The Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and One
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is among other “mentally unstable” patients‚ who are all controlled by Nurse Ratched. To her dismay‚ a man named Randall McMurphy enters the hospital and disrupts her control over the other patients. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Ken Kesey uses characters and
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When the story begins‚ a new patient‚ Randall Patrick McMurphy‚ arrives at the ward. He is a self-professed “gambling fool” who has just come from a work
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Insanity as Redemption on Contemporary American Fiction is a book written Barbara Tepa Lupack. This books holds six chapters about six different literary pieces including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s chapter‚ “Hail to the Chief”. It mainly talks about “inmates running the asylum.” In the specified chapter of the novel‚ Lupack gives some introductory paragraphs about Ken Kesey‚ his life and his reasons for writing this story. Barbara Tepa Lupack says Ken Kesey was a “psychedelic outlaw and a
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years the man laugh. He pulls them out of their drugged out minds “that big red hand of McMurphy ’s is reaching into the fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands‚ dragging them blinking into the open” (140). He helps them get out of the zombie like state that they are in “and I was seeing sharp and high-pitched too‚ everything was sharp and clear and solid like I forgot it could be” (198). McMurphy helped them fight against the Nurse and society “it ’s fogging a little‚ but I won ’t
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spirit of the movie seems to be manifested in the character of Lisa (Jolie). The movie seems to pay heavy homage to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in using a character like Lisa‚ as she seems at first glance like the young female version of Randall McMurphy. Farther in‚ however‚ we discover that Girl‚ Interrupted is more aptly described as being
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