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    plain straight. There is a constant change in circumstances. In that case‚ we must be always prepared to respond on changes. In the play‚ “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by Dale Wasserman‚ the two main characters which is Chief Bromden and Randle Mcmurphy who both set in a mental hospital shows how they both respond to changing circumstances. The second is “The Whip Hand”. The narrator is the person who has a dream where he is a part of a horse race where he wins. But‚ when he wakes up‚ he realizes

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    Randle comes into the hospital ready to rebel and start a riot. At their daily group therapy session‚ Randle asks Nurse Ratched‚ "...remember that vote we had a day or so back--about TV time? Well‚ today’s Friday and I thought I might just bring it up again‚ just to see if anybody else has picked up a little

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    In the movie‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest based on the novel by Ken Kesey‚ Randle McMurphy is sent to a mental institution for acting mentally ill in a work camp. At first‚ McMurphy believes that it would be easy to live in a mental institution‚ but he soon sees that this is not true. McMurphy was astonished when he found out that many of the patients volunteered to be there even though they were treated like animals. With this treatment‚ it is fair to say that the patients were not becoming

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    Ratched is the main source of power and authority in the ward. She has complete control over all of the patients and staff. Although she is technically under the supervision of Doctor Spivey‚ she still possesses the ability to control him as well. When McMurphy is first admitted to the hospital‚ his confident‚ stubborn attitude poses a threat to the Nurse. This threat only motivates her more‚ showing her representation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory‚ the will to power. Nietzsche believes that everything

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    has read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with any sort of biblical knowledge‚ it is obviously apparent that in many ways‚ Randle Patrick McMurphy mirrors Jesus Christ in many ways‚ albeit in an inexact way. While not a perfect mirror‚ much of McMurphy’s character and development are strikingly similar to Christ. For instance‚ near the end of the first part of the book‚ McMurphy is able to convince the other patients to follow him in defying Nurse Ratched during group therapy‚ so they can watch the

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    from hallucinations and delusions. His most prominent fear is that of what he calls the “Combine‚” basically some sort of huge system that controls society and forces conformity. Bromden pretends to be deaf and dumb and tries to go unnoticed. Randle McMurphy is a transfer from Pendleton Work Farm‚ and while he starts of simply as a rebellious‚ charismatic man who loves “women and cards‚” his character evolves to become a leader of sorts‚ in the beginning due to his insubordination and having stood

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    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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    witnessed from page 143-145 of the novel where in the span of hours‚ McMurphy unnecessarily lashes out at both Harding and Martini with no specific reason. He is shown to holler and whilst shuffling‚ scatters a deck of cards in frustration. The film‚ although incorporating his criminal past and some of his violent outbursts such as the shattering of Nurse Ratched’s window‚ softens the negative parts of his behaviour and show McMurphy to be the true hero of the film; the one attempting to question the

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    further strengthen her rule. Nurse Ratched mainly uses her power to keep as much of the outside world away from her patients as she can. However‚ when McMurphy arrives‚ he uses a change of setting as a way to undermine Nurse Ratched. To the other patients‚ McMurphy is a taste of freedom and of the outside world‚ which is a threat to Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is able to change the scenery of the ward for the patients. He is able to get a new day room in an old tub room that is away from the Nurse’s station

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    picaresque novel‚ but it has some contradicting elements as well. Randle McMurphy is the main character in the novel. He is seen at the picaro. The Novel takes place in a Mental Hospital. McMurphy is sent there to finish out he sentence. He was charged for gambling‚ battery and statutory rape. He thinks this will make his sentence easier then jail. However he doesn’t realize Nurse Ratchet is in charge of his Ward. McMurphy realizes how harsh Ratchet is after his first group therapy. He sees how

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