In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest there are many amazing themes. A motif that plays a very important role in this book is sex. A lot of the conflict throughout the book is based on sex. I am not talking about the sexual acts that were performed, but I will be talking about the conflicts that happen, which evolve around sex.
The main conflict is between Nurse Ratched and R. P. McMurphy. A lot of the conflict between these two characters are based on sex. McMurphy represents liberated sexuality. You can fist see this on page 44, when Doc Spivey brings McMurphys's statutory rape that he did to a seventeen year-old girl. For Nurse Ratched, she has repressed sexuality. On page 138 you can see this when McMurphy walks by Nurse Ratched and asks her if she would tell him "the actual inch-by-inch measurement
on them great big ol' breasts that she did her best to conceal but never could. She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tugged her with those outsized badges of femininity, just like she was above him, and sex, and everything else that's weak of the flesh."
After the fishing trip, Nurse Ratched wants all of the men who went to get hosed down in the shower. She says that everyone must be cleaned so they do not spread any diseases. On page 227, Chief Bromden describes the scene. "We lined up nude against the tile, and there one black boy came, a black plastic tube in his hand, squirting a stinking salve sticky as egg white. In the hair first, then turn around an' bend over an' spread your cheeks!" This action that Nurse Ratched called for is not only uncalled-fo
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