Unlike McMurphy‚ Simon does not revel his isolation and instead chooses to isolate himself further by wandering into the forest wilderness and away from the rest of the group. Simon’s seizures and shyness lead to the other older boys ignoring him when he does try
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One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest demonstrates a particularly recalcitrant person‚ McMurphy‚ whose sanity symbolized by his outspoken merriment‚ ‚ and utter confidence stands in dissimilarity to what Ken Kesey implies ironically and catastrophically is an insane institution controlled by Nurse Ratched. The insanity of the institution is foregrounded when a man‚ Maxwell Taber‚ who asks a simple question‚ is tortured and rendered inhuman; although‚ it is not the case in Part One‚ Chapter Fifteen. It
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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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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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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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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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recurring and overwhelming theme throughout the novel. Kesey shows the power of women who are associated with the patients‚ the power Nurse Ratched has‚ and also the power McMurphy fights to win. By default‚ he also shows how little power the patients have. When discussing the theme of power in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ McMurphy can’t be ignored. McMurphy’s power begins with the fact of his mental stability. He comes to the mental institution to escape the stress and difficulties of a prison
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Chief Bromden’s background has had a profound impact on his character. Society never treated him with the respect he deserved‚ and not being able to face up to it‚ he was forced into hiding out in a mental institution. The neglect from society throughout his life turned the Chief into a paranoid‚ insecure and reserved man. The reader gets a glimpse of Chief Bromden’s paranoia in the beginning of the novel. His paranoia mostly takes the form of hallucinations‚ he believes there are hidden machines
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