Fog In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

With McMurphy’s continuous outburst or rebellion, Nurse Ratched sentenced him to receive Electroshock Therapy, the second worse punishment patients would receive for misbehaviour. Determined to put on a strong exterior “he insisted it wasn’t hurting him. He wouldn’t even take his capsules. But every time that loudspeaker called him to forgo breakfast and prepare to walk to Building One, the muscles in his jaw went taunt and his whole face drained of colour, looking thin and scared-” (Kesey 241). Enduring the excruciating experience of Electroshock therapy only heightened the image the other men upheld for McMurphy and contributed to his heroism. Through the fight with the black boys and his fight to stay strong through Electroshock Therapy, McMurphy’s determination was evident to the other patients of the ward.

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For Chief’s hallucinations he sees the people in the ward as machines that have mechanical abilities and technologies that are so advanced. For example, instead of him seeing medication he would see bolts and wires as well as for blood he sees rust. “...she’s got that bag full of a thousand parts she aims to use in her duties today-wheels and gears, cogs polished to a hard glitter, tiny pills that gleam like porcelain, needles, forceps, watchmakers pliers, rolls of copper wire.” (Kesey 10). There would be no need for these mechanical things unless Chief intercepts the people as machines. The ward has the nurse carry medication, but in Chief’s eyes they are viewed as wires and tools meaning the people are being mechanized. “I expect to be sick, but there’s no blood or innards falling out like I was looking to see-just a shower of rustand ashes, and now and again a piece of wire or glass.” (Kesey 81). During the hallucination, Chief sees the body of a chronic cut open and instead of blood and guts coming out he sees wires and rust spill out. This represents the people as machines instead of

Chief Bromden experiences the fog in times of terror-stricken moments; where reality of strict rules and routines are upon him by Nurse Ratchet. When these moments arise he goes into the fog, stating: "You had a choice: you could either strain and look at other things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself... Being lost isn't so bad." (pg. 113-114). Chief feels safe in the fog, he lets it become a shield of blindness when he needs to escape the truth. An example of this is near the beginning of the novel; the first confrontation of the fog. Chief had to get shaved, he hides in the mop closet petrified of what they were going to do. Once they caught him in the closet and were

I must say that this film is very traumatizing. There are some images in this film that will be burned and scarred into my mind for as long as I live. I have seen many holocaust films, but no one was as near as dramatic and depicting as Night and Fog. However I did like the theme of this movie. It is very sad but yet realistic. Our minds are murky and dull. We tend to only remember the important situation in our lives. Yet we don’t remember the importance of our own history. I say OUR history be cause we all are human beings on this earth. Whether we believe in Allah, Jesus, Jehovah, or whatever higher power, we are all one race, and that the human race. It is very sad to know that human beings were treated and

“This is true.” (O’Brien, 420) – with this simple statement which also represents a first, three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story, “How to Tell a True War Story”, the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. “Truth” – when looked up in a dictionary, we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand, and correctness, accuracy or reality on the other hand. When looking at these definitions, one can make out two groups of meaning: While sincerity and honesty are very subjective, correctness or accuracy are supposed to be objective by nature. One can be sincere and still not report the truth, due to the simple fact

One’s mind holds the truth that the rest of the world does not know. People have the choice to tell the world the truth, and even if they do not speak the truth, it is just hidden in their mind. Although people sometimes hide the truth, their actions can help you determine if they are speaking truthfully. For example, in the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe the narrator does not tell the reader what exactly happens, and he alters the truth. The narrator is unreliable because he exaggerates the truth, is insane, and acts as an omniscient narrator at times.

The Chief’s exhibit’s his pretense throughout the movie to every character but Mac. The other patients and nurses see The Chief as a dumb, deaf, and mute Indian. We as the audience know that not to be true. The Chief is quite the opposite as what others see him as, has the ability to talk and listen but chooses not to do those things because he doesn’t want to be disturbed by the other nurses in patients in the institution. The most evident scene supporting this is at the end of the movie. When The chief sees Mac after he’s been labotimized, he suffocates Mac with a pillow. He did that because he knows Mac will never be the same person as he once was and he doesn’t want the other patients to see what Mac has become. The Chief understood the importance of What Mac stood for to the other patients. He then executes Mac’s previous plan of escape by lifting up the hydrotherapy console then throwing it through the window.

In George Orwell's "1984" society is manipulated and guided by an organization called the Party and an anonymous figure named Big Brother, who is used as God. One of the main aspects the Party controls is truth or tries to control is truths in the society and the truth in the minds of the individual themselves. The Party creates what they want to be true to make the individuals ignorant so they can manipulate them easier. This twist of the truth by the Party makes it seem like truth doesn't actually exist, but for Winston it does exist or it once did. Truth does exist if the individual is rebellious to the extent to where it will not get them vaporized and Winston is one of those rebels. He and others are able to experience

(116) as the quote from the novel indicates, the story goes that the patients are trapped within this fog that only they can see after being put into the electroshock treatment. The patients are trapped in this mental state where they are isolated from everyone and everything around them because the fog is blocking their vision from the outside world. The one character who doesn’t see the fog is the newest person to the hospital, McMurphy. “It’s like … that big red hand of his, reaching into the fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dragging them blinking into the open. First one, then another, then the next.

When McMurphy first enters the ward he is joyful and full of energy but Chief notices that “at first … he’s making everybody over there uneasy … with the big wide-open laugh of his” (15). The other patients are uncomfortable with McMurphy’s personality. This shows a motif of machines because Nurse Ratched has control of the patients and she makes them feel like little children. Towards the middle of the book, the reader begins to see how McMurphy has been struggling mentally: “He cuts to shuffle again, and the cards splash everywhere like the deck exploded between his two trembling hands” (155). The author uses imagery to portray how McMurphy is struggling to help the other patients. At the beginning of the book McMurphy could shuffle the cards with ease but now he struggles to keep his hands from trembling. McMurphy says, “Tell me why. You gripe, you bitch … how you can’t stand this place, can’t stand the nurse … and all the time you ain’t committed” (161). Here the reader sees how McMurphy finally feels about all the complaints the men give him. The reader gets some negative diction with words like “bitch,” and “can’t”. Most of those words show how a person does not feel like they have the power to do something about a problem. Towards the end of the book, Chief notices that McMurphy’s head “slumped over with his head hung … it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for

At the beginning of the book Chief Bromden is a large Native American who towers over everybody in the hospital. His large stature makes him hard to miss when someone first sees him but by him acting deaf and dumb, hanging out in the shadows and always being the “fly on the wall” he becomes invisible to people around him while standing in plain sight, he is also invisible to the staff in the hospital who the Chief wants to be invisible to the most. When McMurphy first meets Chief, he notices the Chief’s large stature and believes that he is a “leader” in the hospital until another patient explains to Mcmurphy that the Chief is deaf and dumb, Mcmurphy dismisses Chief as a “leader” and makes himself the leader of the hospital. Mcmurphy even says, “Is that right? You deef, Chief? Well, what the hell, he can shake hands can’t he? Deef or whatever. By God, Chief, you may be big, but you shake my hand or I’ll consider it an insult. And it’s not a good idea to insult the new bull goose loony of the hospital.” Page# 23. This is significant by showing how broken Chief is and how even though he is a mighty powerful man, he has been broken and has become an invisible person in a large “machine”.

Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is a creation of the socio-cultural context of his time. Social and cultural values, attitudes and beliefs informed his invited reading of his text.

Truth. This word had always intrigued Alexis. The concept of one thing being fact, and the rest being fiction. She wondered what their truth was; since it certainly did not seem true to her.

Long Day’s Journey into Night is a semi-autobiographical story written by Eugene O’Neill roughly on 1941- 1942. The play concerns the Tyrone family which were composed of parents James and Mary and their sons Jamie and Edmund. Mary and Jamie were each addicted to morphine and alcohol, respectively. The story deals with the family’s addiction to whiskey, the father parsimony, the mother’s addiction to morphine, and the younger son’s illness. Resentment, blame, and accusation were expressed all the times by the family members for not taking responsibility and running away from the reality. The long journey that the title of the play referred to was actually a journey into the past. A