One may suffer as a consequence of breaking the rules, but he will suffer unfairly if he were only breaking them to stand up for his beliefs. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nurse Ratched constantly caused the inmates to endure unfair suffering when they broke the rules, even if they were breaking them to stand up for their beliefs. On the evening of the world series game, the inmates led by McMurphy held a vote so they could watch the game. The deciding vote was not submitted in time because "the meeting was closed" according to the Nurse. McMurphy rebelled against this unfair decision by skipping his chores and sitting there "with his hands crossed behind his head and his feet stuck out in a chair, a smoking cigarette sticking out from under his

The nurse's domineering attitude and ideas of punishing men unfairly, worsen throughout the novel. One afternoon in the shower room "[the inmates] lined up nude against the tile..." at first "everyone was laughing and kidding" (p. 227) until one of the black boys tried to pick a fight with George. This angered McMurphy and he felt obliged to stick up for George. The fighting started up between McMurphy and Washington when McMurphy yelled out "you Goddamned mother*censored*ing niger". (p. 229). This comment started a vicious battle between the inmates led by McMurphy against the black boys. Later on "The Big Nurse [talked] to McMurphy, soft and patient, about the irresponsible thing he did, the childish thing, throwing a tantrum like a little boy". The Nurse then explained that "at a special group meeting... the staff [thought] it might be beneficial that he receive some shock therapy"(p. 235). I think this type of treatment is horrible, shock therapy should be illegal, not a punishment given to a man who stood up for his peers. Even though McMurphy believed "[his] skull's too thick for them to hurt [him]"(p. 237), shock therapy is very harmful to one's brain.

In the last scenes of the novel unfair punishment is greatly expressed. One evening "At midnight, when Geever and the other black boy and the nurse went off duty, and the old colored fellow, Mr. Turkle, came on for his shift" McMurphy convinced him to "let [girls] in the window"

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