One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

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.

Both men, McMurphy and Luke were turned into examples, much like Jesus Christ and left behind a legacy. Luke at the prison was cool without a doubt, motivating all the prisoners to follow his lead which attracted attention of the authority who believed that Luke had to be dealt with since he was getting out of line and also taking the other prisoners with him 'Thats my darling luke, grins like a baby bites like a gator' we see here in this qoute that dragline was one of many whose heart Luke won, dragline calls him 'darling' which shows how much luke is loved by his fellow prisoners and what a huge impact he has had on their personality. When McMurphy started popping the bubbles of the 'rabbits', making them realize that they had been ripped

Motives are the most common source of an outcome, leading individuals to every action that occurs. Every decision made by an individual is influenced by some sort of motive, whether it is physiological, social, or personal. Ken Kesey presents to the reader the inspiration behind the characters course of action in the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, resulting in the change of heart from Dr.Spivey and Randle McMurphy. The impact from other individuals often alters the reasoning for an action. Doctor Spivey originally supported Nurse Ratched’s actions, but Mcmurphy influenced him to make decisions based on the needs and wants of the patients. Mcmurphy inspires the men to voice their opinion and builds their confidence up, so that they can take on the Nurse. Nurse Ratched does not agree with the men, so she does everything in her power to eliminate the men's masculinity in order for her to keep the ward running like she desires.

“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.

McMurphy was a so called a psychopath rite when he first arrived to the ward. Things really came alive when he arrived he immediately took over the ward.Even though everyone in the ward was scared and afraid of Nurse ratchet.Everyone was scared to get electroshock therapy or lobotomy session because it was all up to Nurse Ratchet,so of course no one wanted to get on her bad side until Mcmurphy arrived to ward and everything changed because he was the only so called rebel to stand up to Nurse Ratchet.Since none of the patients had confidence to stand up for themselves he then standed up for the patients and started to push the limits on Nurse Ratchet by telling her to turn on the tv so all the patients could watch the world series,and makeing

Imagine a world with no sex. Where those who openly embrace their sexualty are diagnosed as “deranged”. It’s an ideology that would produce a bleak world where everyone is repressed in one way shape or form. We witness this oppressive agenda practiced all throughout Ken Kesey's The Bird That Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched strips the wards of their libido in twisted assertion of dominance. This due to the fact that Kesey conveys the idea that sexuality can be used as a weapon of mass destruction through the use of Nurse Ratched’s characterization, the conflict that emerges between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, and using McMurphy to act as Nurse Ratchets foil. All of these elements depicts how important sexaulity is to all the characters.

In order to contrast the stark, mechanized setting as well as the sadistic Nurse Ratched of the mental institution, Ken Kesey presents Randall Patrick McMurphy as a defiant, charismatic beacon of humanity within One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Inside the hospital, Nurse Ratched maintains control with a series switches and dials, “…[sitting] in [a] web of wires…managing her network with mechanical insect skill…” (30). Here, Kesey likens the nurse to a lethal arachnid, in charge of a cold, robotic environment that strips away its inhabitants’ humanity. The nurse and her staff lack empathy and use abuse, neglect, and intimidation as tools to make the patients obedient husks of men. However, the admission of Randall McMurphy introduces a contradictory

According to Freud, civilization is against happiness because of the conflict between the state of nature and the state of society. Freud believed human nature was to be aggressive and sexual all the time (the id) and society is what controls us and makes us suppress these urges (superego). This conflict between our innate animalistic urges and society’s control, according to Freud, leads to discontentment and unhappiness. Although civilization leads to us mastering our id, Freud would argue that we are not ok with it and therefore are not happy.

When examining One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest from a semantic perspective things did get tricky since Ken Kesey wrote the story in a peculiar way. For this portion I will make use of three examples from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At any rate, let’s get down to it, “He’s skulled,” McMurphy hissed (Kesey 165.) For this quote we’ll look at denotation, skulled could mean the person was hit in the head or it could be the slang term for being drunk or according to online dictionaries it means…having a skull, especially of a specified type. Obviously, there is a difference in the definitions for the word skulled. The first thing that came to mind is someone getting hit in the head, so I could see someone being skulled but not in reference to

I discussed this briefly with Joyce and the easiest way for this to work would be to feed the NM orders over to Fluency. The integration between PACS and Fluency already exists. The only thing that would remain from that point would be for the Rads to access the studies from Synapse within the MLK folder. We would absolutely test this out but considering any other option, this seems to be the nest and simplest at this time.

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.

From all the mass media surrounding me, I’ve come up with a list of things that manifest love: deep gaze under the night sky, long walk on the beach, kiss under the mistletoe, blush when the eyes meet … images filtered by warm, gentle light with soundtrack of laughter and guitar beats. I always knew that love can be every small but precious moment in life, yet, what I didn’t know was it can also be something quite bizarre, such as a spit in someone’s food.

Alphy has a huge emotional outpouring towards her mother. She is committed to her mother’s way for good or bad. She is allowed to visit her mother only once in a week. Alphy do not like to break herself free from her mother’s presence. She completely depends on her mother for all her decisions. Alphy is not comfortable with friendships. She keeps both boys and girls away from her with her rude behavior. She likes to be a lone-wolf at school. Alphy does not miss any opportunity to start a fight.

As a pharmacy student, math and science are the subjects I have always appreciated. Consequently, the only times I have ever really read is when the reading was assigned to me in a literature class. Personally, I do not enjoy the idea of reading, but of the books that I have managed to read, the two that I admired the most is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.