Nurse Ratched Quotes

This quote shows how Nurse Ratched is reminding the patients that they all have a mental illness and they are not “normal” people. A lot of the patients begin to question the ruling of Nurse Ratched. When they speak up about how they feel, she implies that they are rules for therapeutic reasons. She wants them to follow the orders and not question her command in the ward. The nurse makes the patients feel worthless and hopeless, which is a

Though she smiles a lot and talks sweetly, she’s not a kind or charming woman; instead she is a woman with a strong will for control. She pursues power with intensity and is very successful at getting people to do what she wants. Nurse Ratched has the ability to present a false superficial self, and she has complete and total control over the ward and her emotions at all times. This exemplifies that the mechanistic and oppressive forces in society build up through the abuse of power and dishonesty by authoritative figures. (Lead in) “Manipulative to the core, the only thing that really matters to Ratched is her desire to control everything around her- the environment, the staff, the patients” (Novel For Student 224). The abuse of power and authority cause individuals to be broken. Explain how the outside quote integrates into your thesis and your quotes from the book. The narrator says, “What the chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beaten in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant

The conflicts in Ken Kesey’s book, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” seemed to surround the concept of having the power of authority in the wrong hands. In the eyes of Chief, a patient who pretended to be deaf and mute, we saw McMurphy, an insane imposture only there to relieve himself of jail time, battle against the control the head nurse, Nurse Ratchet, had over the patients in the asylum. As McMurphy’s struggles clashed between his own personal gains and facilitating those patients were too deranged to help themselves against Nurse Ratchets evil hold. Nurse Ratchet used her authority and the patient's weaknesses to dominate their mentality through intimidation. McMurphy worked to corrupt her ways and withdraw from the demeaning dominance

“A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after its, you must stand still, and for love, it will soon itself come back.” (16), stated Rebecca Nurse in the play The Crucible. Rebecca The above quote demonstrates Rebecca’s mature and motherly nature. Nurse a wise old woman, birthed eleven kids and has twenty-six grandchildren. The people of Salem view Nurse as kind hearted motherly figure. She is greatly respected by the citizens of Salem. However, through a series of unfortunate events, Nurse is falsely accused of witchcraft and is hung. These events exemplify her positive characteristics, some of which I can relate to. Rebecca Nurse and I share many characteristics including our faith, charitable attitude, and rationality.

Nurse Ratched rules through insinuation and never outright threatens or accuses her patients. Instead she becomes a destructive conscience. After McMurphy is admitted to the ward her glass panel breaks constantly, representing how easily her control is lost to him. McMurphy breaks the glass panel to remind the patients of how Ratched’s power is easily broken. Nurse Ratched, knowing McMurphy can easily thwart her manipulation tactics, sets up a meeting without McMurphy. Nurse Ratched attempts to recapture her patients through manipulation and insinuation. “No, Billy, I wasn’t implying anything. I was simply observing that Mr. McMurphy isn’t one to run a risk without reason. You would all agree to that, wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t all of you agree to that?”(264). Nurse Ratched attempts to regain control over the ward by turning the acutes against McMurphy. She tells the group of McMurphy’s gambling problem and implies that he is hustling them. She fears McMurphy’s influence and attempts to convert the patients without his knowledge. Nurse Ratched does not anticipate the change in her patients. Billy surprises her by fiercely defending

Nurse Ratched, known as Big Nurse is the head nurse in the asylum and her role is to keep order and control in the ward. She is a master of manipulation. In the passage on page 55, the metaphor referring to the therapy meeting as “bunch of chickens at a peckin’party” uses an animal motif to further emphasize the inhuman way Big Nurse retains control. The alliteration “peckin’ party” and blood and bones” (Kesey, 55) underscores the seriousness of the meeting. Harding is the chicken in this peckin’ party and Big Nurse is the one who takes the first peck. Adding amplification to McMurphy’s analogy, detailing blood spotted chickens that get pecked to death and as their blood splats onto other chickens they become the next victims, creates a graphic

In Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched, also known as Big Nurse, is a former army nurse and now the head nurse in charge of the patients in the mental institution. Nurse Ratched has complete control over every aspect of the mental ward. It’s evident that Nurse Ratched has an indescribable desire/determination to divide and conquer her patients, so that she can maintain a certain hierarchy within the ward. However throughout the course of the novel Nurse Ratched goes from being powerful to powerless. Due to Nurse Ratched’s strategic use of guilt and shame to continually emasculate the male patients and manipulate them into submission she is able to maintain power, however this power is ultimately taken away when her androgynous front is ripped off by Mcmurphy revealing that she is not only a woman/human being but also as weak and troubled as everyone else in the ward.

Insanity is a major theme throughout the novel. Insanity is the state of being insane, and many characters became insane when they are going to the camps. Elie, his father, Ms.Schachter, and meir katz become insane.

Nurse Ratched gives the impression that nurses are cruel, heartless and do not care about their patients. She makes nurse look like the 'bad guys'. People who do not care and will not listen to the patient. Nurse Ratched does not show the core nursing values that everyone should receive when being taken care of by a nurse. She looks past the problems and pretends everything is alright when it clearly is not. Nurses must notice and solve patients' problems. If they do not something dangerous could occur. For example, the most emotional scene in the movie was when the character Billy is caught with a women and had spent the night with her. Nurse Ratched theathens to call his mother and he begs her not to. He becomes hysteric and later he kills hisself because he does want the disapproval of his mother. A nurse is suppose to make sure the patient is safe and comfortable. A nurse should becareful what they say to a patient so they do not become as upset as Billy did and cause a tragedy. Nurse Ratched should have never threathened Billy. It is unprofessional and caused the patient unneccessary distress. Billy went against Nurse Ratched's authority and led him to suicide. She treats the patients as prisoners instead of patients like a professional should. She makes nurses everywhere seems horrible and unemotional. She does not care for her patients like a real nurse

The novel describes the inner workings the the mental institution of how the patients are emasculated and mistreated by terrifying big nurse Ratched, who will go to any length to control them. “We do not impose certain rules and restrictions on you without a great deal of thought about their therapeutic value…….for your own good that we enforce discipline and order.” (page 171) The patients are unaware of their surroundings and they all depend on the big nurse for their well-being’s. Beginning of the novel when

This is what we see what we see Nurse Ratched do to her patients. She’s established very early on as a daunting authoritative figure, who guarantees her grip on all her psyches through the use of emasculation. Her words callously cutting into the egos of all the patients. Furthermore Nurse Ratched displays a clear dislike in all things unsavory.”Get your hands off my window you’re staining it” (Kesey 89). This is another trait that is vital to her characterization, as the ideal antagonist in the narrative, tidiness. Now this may seem unimportant until you take into account the setting of the story. A lifeless white mental ward devoid of personality. These are traits Nurse Ratched shares with the setting. Adding to that is the twisted mindset of mental health at the time the novel was written , where lobotomy was common. Instead of dealing with the flaws of a colorful personality society deemed it easier to just remove the source of all the passion. Nurse Ratched is the actual personification of this mindset, wholeheartedly believing that she helping the patients by removing them of the ailments that make them who they are . Her twisted mindset leads to her perpetually castrating male patients in hopes of ridding them of their troublesome emotion, her approach actually causing more harm than good. Nurse Ratched’s most obvious pacification is displayed through her interactions with Billy,

In Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the character Nurse Ratched and the Combine have the most power compared to any of the other characters through the usage of the weakness of staff and patients, the pills, shock therapy, and lobotomy. The author uses her for the theme of maintaining law and order with power. We can see that she has power over not only the patients but also the staff that work under her. Even the ward’s doctor, Dr. Spivey, described as “ completely conscious of his inadequacy…”

By establishing Nurse Ratched as a figure of absolute authority it solidifies her position as the oppressive force suffocating the male patients. She accomplishes this indiscernible, almost unbreakable grip on the patients by emasculating them. She uses their sexuality as a tool of manipulation by stripping them of it. Sexuality is a weapon that men use to defend themselves, it is by stripping them of this “rifle” that they’re left defenseless.

Similar to Nineteen Eighty-four, the psychiatric ward is controlled by Nurse Ratched and her staff members. Throughout the novel, the combine;” a machine culture which harvest and packages men…and Big Nurse, its powerful agent” (Sherwood 100) does everything in their power to construct “ a world of precision, efficiency, and tidiness”( Sherwood 39). The head administrative Nurse Ratched a former army veteran is portrayed as a sexually repressed woman who regulates people in the ward , such as the inmates, the black boys and the rest with an iron fist and an iron glove and is the human manifestation of the combine. From the society`s standpoint, Nurse Ratched or Big Nurse is doing her job in a properly, orginazing way through her actions;However inside the mental institution she`s different. Knowing fully of the power that she acquires over the patients and the nurses she has no hesitation of using it to maintain her powers and achieve her

To begin with, Kesey uses the character of Nurse Ratched to show how people with power dominate and castrate the weak. After the first Group Meeting, Dale Harding, an insecure, gay patient on the ward compares the patients to a rabbit who “‘knows his place. He most certainly doesn’t challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?”’(Kesey 50). In this quote, Harding is saying how the power of Nurse Ratched is akin to a wolf, who keeps all of her “rabbits,” or patients, under control and to a point in which they do not “challenge the wolf to combat”. This shows the point to which Nurse Ratched is an emasculating figure, as she psychologically castrates the men with her persona and forces them to submit to her. Through this quote, Kesey is trying to illustrate that fact that the patients on the ward are