One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

Randle McMurphy, the protagonist, is introduced to break down the nurse’s oppressive ways. McMurphy, a con man who was sentenced to a work farm, was diagnosed as a psychopath and sent to the mental hospital, which he much preferred. Serving as a savior figure to the patients of the ward who have already been battered by the Big Nurse, McMurphy causes interference to the nurse’s control. He supports the men as they are ridiculed in meetings and supports their attempts to change policy. Although he does help other patients, he first looks out for himself. He cons the patients out of their money and then follows the nurse’s rules for awhile because of the threat of being kept on the

As soon as McMurphy arrives on the ward, he challenges Nurse Ratched’s abusive regime in hopes of restoring humanity and the rights of the individual. It didn’t take long

In Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the nurse Miss Ratched is a fine example of a realistic fictional villain. Possession of three key components is essential in identifying what makes Miss Ratched a villian. Motive is what drives the villain to commit the very acts that allow them to be considered evil in the first place, and often drive their entire being as a character. While they must possess motive, they must also have a sense of morals that coincides with their motives (typically evil, or distorted) and follow their moral compass in a way that often causes trouble for those around them. Additionally, a villain is frequently associated with their opposite; the hero who combats them. Kesey’s character perfectly aligns with these three categories of what makes a villain, and it is unquestionable that she is the villain of the novel.

In Parts II and III, McMurphy starts to show some care and respect for the other people in the ward, but then goes back

In this book written by Ken Kesey, the main character is a man named R.P. McMurphy who tricks people into thinking that he is a psychopath. To McMurphy, the asylum is a get out of jail free card, which quickly turns out to be something else entirely. However, one vital aspect of this book is the way in which it addresses and provides insight upon several contemporary issues relating to the American healthcare system, by illustrating the ways in which our modern healthcare system has improved and grown in the last five decades. This includes the following areas of healthcare: the need for a healthcare reform, the lack of healthy doctor-patient relationships, and the murky definition of mental illness.

As one is experiencing a life of alienation and loneliness, they may being to act uncontrollable while rebelling against their surroundings, one loses themselves as they feel different than everyone present. Alienation can force an individual to spiral into an abyss of nothingness, nonetheless if one allows others to reach out and inspire than it is possible to break away from the alienation and loneliness. Chief Bromden from the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey, is an Indian who was institutionalized for insanity and is considered a chronic in the ward as he is “too far gone” to be healed. Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger is a lying, rebellious teenager sent away by his parents to a private school as they are unable to handle Holden’s behaviour. It is evident both experience alienation as their stories progress and actions taken, however the individuals present in their lives motivate changes in the outcomes of these dynamic characters.

“A success, they say, but I say he’s just another robot for the Combine and might be better off as a failure…”(17).

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a famous USA movie at November 19, 1975. This movie talks about when Randle Patrick McMurphy was transferred from prison farm to a mental institution, a group people who were diagnosed with mental illness lived here. McMurphy was dynamic, distinguished himself from other patients in the disregard he displays for all authority, the patients treated him as the leader. The big nurse Ratched wanted to controlling over McMurphy as other patients. However, McMurphy was send for a lobotomy after he attacked Ratched, his friend Chief killed McMurphy and finally, he was freedom (Ken Kesey, 2003). This research paper regards to the symptoms, casual factors of narcissistic personality disorder, the type of treatments received from in this film, the influence on others and my personal feelings to this movie.

Kesey highlights two distinctions between the roles of women in his novel ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. He places women in two categories, the ‘Ballcutters’ and ‘Whores’ . The ‘Ballcutters’ are presented to have a dominant role over the men within the ‘Combine’ and challenges their masculinity, resulting in them being personified as machines. This is demonstrated when Bromden describes the ‘tip of each finger the same colour as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron’ of Nurse Ratched. Bromden compares the complexion of her fingers and lips with a metal iron, suggesting not only is she machine like, but also has the physical appearance of a metal machine. The ‘Whores’ are Candy and Sandy who are submissive and this stems from the introduction of the contraceptive pill, as ‘feminists encouraged sexual exploitation with multiple partners and claimed sexual pleasure as a woman’s right’, Thus, resulting into them being presented as sexual beings fulfilling the sexual appetite of men.

Throughout the short three months that I have been in Mr. Parsan's class I have learned many new things. I've learned new vocabulary, rhetorical devices, different grammatical errors, more efficient studying methods, and of course the battle for power in "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". Out of all these things, I think the most important thing is the battle for power. The battle for power is also the most interesting topic we have learned about. The battle for power is between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched in the book "One flew over the cuckoo's nest".

The author of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Keasey, received his inspiration for the book while volunteering at a veteran's hospital. This is where he was first introduced to LSD. The moment he tried it, he became addicted, and began experimenting on himself with the drugs, observing the effects. The novel deals with the tyrannical rule of head Nurse Ratched in a mental hospital somewhere in Oregon. She runs all business and daily life in the asylum to her every whim and rules the ward by fear and manipulation. This has gone on for as long as the narrator, Chief Bromden, can remember. However a new patient, Randle McMurphy, enters the hospital and begins to wreak havoc upon the system

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.

The novel is set in the 1960’s inside a mental institution told by a patient, Big Chief Bromden and can be seen as a miniature mirror of society. The wards society is presented as a machine, called the Combine, that makes everyone conform to its strict rules and timetables. All individuality is taken away from the patients, and the happy feelings are frowned upon. In the ward, the leader of ‘society’ is the Big Nurse. She enforces order, efficiency and repression. She intends to cure them so that they can fit into the outside world and conform with all the rules that exist. If the patients refuse or resist to comply with her rules, they are abused by legitimate treatments that are supposed to be used only for curing mentally ill patients such as electro-shock therapy, lobotomy and spinal taps.

Throughout the novel, the characters slowly begin to challenge authority and stand up for themselves against the ruthless control of Nurse Ratched. When McMurphy first steps into the ward, he immediately makes everyone in the hospital uncomfortable with his carefree laughter. “At first I see that he’s making everybody over there feel uneasy, with all his kidding and joking and with the brassy way he hollers at that black boy who’s still after him with a thermometer, and especially with that big wide-open laugh of his” (Kesey 17). All of the patients in the hospital are immune to laughter because they are victims of the combine. The central conflict in the novel revolves around the power struggle between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy. McMurphy has no qualms; he is careless and crude. Nurse Ratched is a ruthless dictator, who strongly encourages patients to follow her rules in order to avoid harsh consequences. McMurphy recognizes this immediately and becomes the chief leader of rebellion in the novel. He encourages gambling on the ward, deviously plans a party in the middle of the night (which includes sneaking in prostitutes, drugs, and alcohol), and challenges Nurse Ratched’s authority every chance he gets. The hospital is a metaphor for the conformist society in the 1950’s. Kesey is trying to convey that the true insanity is not within the patients of the hospital, but the hospital itself. The staff at

One flew over the cuckoo’s nest is a book written by Ken Kesey in 1962. The book was published more then 50 years ago but yet is one of my favourite books that I have read through out my years of high school because it tells me about the the life in the 1950s. The novel was set at an psychiatric hospital. The book was narrated by Bromden, a big size half Native American patient at the hospital for about ten years, who everyone thinks is deaf and mute. Bromden’s paranoia is clear from the first line in the book that he clearly suffered from hallucinations and or delusions. The mental patients are all male and are divided into two groups, Acutes who can be cured and the chronics that couldn’t be cured. They were ruled by a nurse knows has Ratched,