One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey‚ there is a power struggle between the protagonist Randle Patrick McMurphy and the antagonist Nurse Ratched‚ also known as Big Nurse. The story takes place on a mental ward and is narrated in the perspective of a patient named Bromden. Nurse Ratched has complete control of both the ward staff and the patients‚ but when newly admitted McMurphy arrives‚ Nurse Ratched’s position of power is threatened as he tries to dominate the ward. The question is: how
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don’t bother him. He is the "longest-residing patient" and keeps a lot to himself. While pretending to be deaf‚ leads him to the knowledge of secrets about the ward. Although he has a lot of mental distractions from his past‚ the new patient‚ Randal McMurphy has created new problems for the ward to
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you are one or the other and no in between‚ and of course the reasoning to whichever you choose is only to benefit you. Mcmurphy represents freedom‚ rebellion‚ and toughness. Although I wouldn’t say he’s the true definition of a psychopath he’s in the ward as a get out scheme and to avoid punishment as any other normal human being who gets into trouble with the law. Mcmurphy is your conservative his intentions are to try to turn the people in the ward on the same path as him. He takes risks for
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The characterisation in this plot is carefully made by the author‚ where each character is built to represent a different thing for the audience and to challenge society’s beliefs in the early 60’s. For example‚ The characters of the Chief and McMurphy were placed to reinforce the beat beliefs and to show that ‘illness’ for society at the time‚ wasn’t really to be crazy‚ it was just to be a bit different from everyone else‚ challenging society’s view of the insane. However‚ the character of nurse
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Chief was replaced by McMurphy. The “Hollywood” assessment of Kesey’s novel must’ve been less Oscars had the movie been narrated by a “deaf and dumb” Indian. Nonetheless‚ the film is magnificent (when not critiquing its relation to the novel) and it does manage to capture at least one of Kesey’s themes. Choosing McMurphy as the main focus in the movie placed an even greater emphasis on Kesey’s initial theme of rebellion against authority and conformity. In fact McMurphy is portrayed as even more
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The significance of allusions in literature is further seen in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey’s most apparent biblical allusion is seen within Bromden’s depiction of the Combine‚ he states‚ “... endless machines…swarming with sweating‚ shirtless men running up and down catwalks‚ blank faces and dreamy in firelight thrown from a hundred blast furnaces‚” (Kesey 86). The gloomy atmosphere as well as the mechanical and brutal nature of the ward‚ is perhaps an allusion to Hell and Dante’s novel
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Nurse’s devotion to her daily routine: ‘The slightest thing messy or out of kilter in any way ties her into a little white knot of tight-smiled fury’ (27) When McMurphy enters the ward‚ the delicate equilibrium which the nurse has created is upset. This is because‚ like the nurse‚ McMurphy is a natural leader-figure. He takes over the control of the ward by manipulating the patients; seemingly for their own good‚ but it may be argued that he gets a feeling a control from
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None of the characters really pay attention to him 3.) He ends up being completely sane and starts speaking with Mcmurphy 4.) Mcmurphy got him to open up and he ends up branching out and becomes an actual person who cherishes things McMurphy: 1.) Believed to be insane due to his disorderly conduct 2.) Obnoxious and loud. Smart ass 3.) At first other characters are afraid of Mcmurphy but then they all start to follow him and take him on as their leader. Once he stopped being so selfish and actually
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better perspective. The novel can be very confusing and sometimes go off topic into another scene. When reading the novel in different parts‚ we can take one thing at a time and then eventually put them all together and understand everything. McMurphy represents as hope to everyone in the ward. He symbolizes hope because he has the bravery none of them have to get out of the ward whenever he chooses. He goes against everything Ratched says and all of the wards rules and regulations. When they
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A comparative study on the significance and presentation of empowerment in Grapes of Wrath‚ Poems and One Flew over the Cuckoo ’s Nest. Ideas of personal empowerment and empowerment of minority groups are explored in Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck‚ Poems by Maya Angelou and Ken Kesey ’s One Flew over the Cuckoo ’s Nest. Steinbeck‚ Angelou and Kesey are all writers deeply concerned with equality and humanism. This is prevalent because all three pieces of their writing centre on empowering groups
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