One Flew over the cukcoo's nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what goes on in this institute. The main points in the novel deal with control, be it McMurphy who is unable to handle control or Nurse Ratched the head nurse on the ward whose job requires her to be in control. The world of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is dark; it is a place where control leads to destruction, but the novel shows through the character of the Chief that there is still hope if the people who are being controlled have the power to resist. Nurse Ratched is a mean woman whose job revolves around control. She depends on people who are less fortunate than her to make a living. Her need to control others is an unfortunate trait that she has because it makes people unable to think for themselves and it also leads to destruction. One example of this is when Nurse Ratched caught one of the patients (Billy Bibbet) with a woman. The nurse feeling the need to control Billy threatened to tell his mother. Billy begged Nurse Ratched not to tell her but when his requests were refused Billy slashed his neck with a broken bottle and killed himself. Billy's life was destroyed because of Nu
Another place that we see the dark world is when we examine the relationship between Nurse Ratched and Randall Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy is a happy rebellious man. He is not used to being controlled, so when he gets into the institution he refuses to be controlled by Nurse Ratched, "I can get the best of that woman before the week is up- without her getting the best of me."2 Nurse Ratched constantly feels the need to control McMurphy. Ever since that McMurphy walked into the sanitarium Big Nurse tells him what to do, when to sit in the circle, when to eat, when to take his medicine, and so on. At first McMurphy tries not to listen to Big Nurse because he doesn't want anyone to feel stronger than him, "A man go lettin' a woman whap him down till he can't laugh no more and he loses the biggest edge he's got on his side. First thing you know he'll begin to think she's tougher than he is."3 Near the end of the novel when Billy Bibbet commits suicide, because of Nurse Ratched, McMurphy strangles her in an attempt to kill her. At that point the nurse realized that there is no way to control McMurphy, so McMurphy, so McMurphy is given a lobotomy and is no longer able to function as a normal human being. McMurphy's freedom to live was taken away, he was left as a lifeless human being because of Nurse Ratched'' inability to control him. Throughout the no
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Approximate Word count = 922
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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