the public‚ a mental hospital. Nurse Ratched‚ the head nurse in the asylum‚ is abusive with power and shows no mercy to the patients. The majority of her power comes from her ability to make the patients feel as if they are a lesser than she is. McMurphy who was sent to the hospital‚ diagnosed with insanity‚ is seen as a leader to the patients and they hope for him to change they way it runs. Whether he’s in there for a legitimate reason or not‚ he is intelligent‚ likeable and gives the patients
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THE CUCKOO’S NEST a) Charismatic Leader: McMurphy shows characteristics of a charismatic leader in various ways. McMurphy is transferred to a mental institution for evaluation after he had been convicted of statutory rape. When McMurphy gets to the institution‚ he feels as the institution is very supressed and has a strict regimen that everyone is expected to follow. Unpleasant medical treatments are used to supress the patients. When McMurphy sees this‚ he realizes that the environment needs
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over the Cuckoo’s Nest is power. McMurphy and nurse Ratchet kind of fight back and forth‚ for the power of the patients. For example‚ when McMurphy wants to watch the baseball game and nurse Ratchet made the patients vote‚ saying that majority would win. Nurse Ratchet new that she had enough power that the patients would not vote with McMurphy‚ simply because they didn’t have the heart to stand up for what they wanted‚ and was scared of nurse Ratchet. Next‚ McMurphy challenges her again and he still
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McMurphy- McMurphy is outgoing‚ a leader and a rebel. There was a constant power struggle in the movie between the patient’s new found savior McMurphy‚ and the evil Nurse Ratched who rules their wing of the hospital with an iron fist. McMurphy fights to change the system to try to win back the patients’ rights and in the process gain more privileges for the patients and himself. McMurphy also seems to get pleasure out of fighting the system. His motives are simple‚ he wants to help out his fellow
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recounts the tale of protagonist – Randle Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy is admitted to the mental institution and befriends the other patients in his ward and begins a grim struggle with Nurse Ratched. At the core‚ the story is about the struggle between order and chaos‚ and there is no freedom without a little chaos. Yet to maintain order there must be oppression. Whereas McMurphy flies at the seat of his pants‚ Ratchet is an authoritarian stoic. When McMurphy came to the ward he had disrupted the routine
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control The Big Nurse had on her patients. The role each character plays in this showdown symbolizes the realistic confrontations between the mentally unstable and the rest of society that has been going on for centuries. Randle Patrick McMurphy is a powerful‚ intelligent man‚ a true non-conformist. He comes to the mental institution to avoid the tedious work forced upon him at the prison he was assigned to. His playful‚ jolly attitude towards the patients surprises them since they have
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Cuckoo’s Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant‚ wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward‚ the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising‚ life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down‚ starting a gambling operation‚ smuggling in wine and women‚ and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy’s
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Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The book began with a boisterous Mcmurphy swaggering into the ward of a mental institution and taking it quite by storm. McMurphy rallied the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. But this defiance‚ which started as a sport‚ soon developed into a grim struggle‚ an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched‚ backed by the full power of authority‚ and McMurphy‚ who had only his own indomitable will. What happened when
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Is Conformity Right? 1984’s Winston Smith‚ Catcher In the Rye’s Holden Caulfield‚ and Once Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s Randle P. McMurphy all have different views on the world around them. The opinions that they have set them apart from the individuals in their society. Each of them handle their customs‚ beliefs‚ rules‚ and behaviors of their own particular societies differently. They are all different from the others in their community but each in their own unique way. Winston’s wife dislikes
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One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest The novel One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey portrays the 1950’s as a time of craziness. R.P McMurphy‚ one of the protagonists in the novel‚ is a self-centered rebellious man‚ who diligently attempts‚ using his manipulate ways‚ to be the dominant force of the ward. Simultaneously‚ Nurse Ratched is a dominant force‚ which uses her iron fist and mechanical ways to drain the humanity out of her patients. During McMurphy’s time at the ward‚ there is a constant
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