the public‚ a mental hospital. Nurse Ratched‚ the head nurse in the asylum‚ is abusive with power and shows no mercy to the patients. The majority of her power comes from her ability to make the patients feel as if they are a lesser than she is. McMurphy who was sent to the hospital‚ diagnosed with insanity‚ is seen as a leader to the patients and they hope for him to change they way it runs. Whether he’s in there for a legitimate reason or not‚ he is intelligent‚ likeable and gives the patients
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THE CUCKOO’S NEST a) Charismatic Leader: McMurphy shows characteristics of a charismatic leader in various ways. McMurphy is transferred to a mental institution for evaluation after he had been convicted of statutory rape. When McMurphy gets to the institution‚ he feels as the institution is very supressed and has a strict regimen that everyone is expected to follow. Unpleasant medical treatments are used to supress the patients. When McMurphy sees this‚ he realizes that the environment needs
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dominance. Nurse Ratched‚ and her matriarchy run the ward filled with mental patients. McMurphy‚ a new patient‚ uses the ward to escape from society and its rules. He soon realizes the power‚ Nurse Ratchet has established‚ and tries to break it. In the novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey‚ the character of Nurse Ratchet tries use her sexuality over men to establish power and control in the ward‚ but McMurphy challenges her‚ as he protests against Ratchet’s demands by ignoring work and watching
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Comparisons in the Christ-like characteristics between McMurphy and Jesus Throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ there are signs that McMurphy is a comic Christ-like figure; despite his apparent faults and shortcomings‚ his actions match that of a tragic hero who saves his people. McMurphy may be considered boorish and in many ways immoral‚ however‚ he has other characteristics that resemble Christ- McMurphy has a modest background as a logger‚ he helps his people rise up against the
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the image of gambling vs. playing it safe‚ whether in literal card games or as a way of living. The mental ward’s new patient‚ Randle Patrick McMurphy‚ is a self-described “gambling fool” (12)1‚ while his opposer‚ “Big Nurse” Ratched‚ forces the “Acute” patients to play it safe by trying to keep the ward in order with her mechanical routine. As McMurphy influences the men on the ward to be individuals‚ gambling becomes a part of the everyday routine. Eventually‚ the men on the ward begin taking
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over the Cuckoo’s Nest is power. McMurphy and nurse Ratchet kind of fight back and forth‚ for the power of the patients. For example‚ when McMurphy wants to watch the baseball game and nurse Ratchet made the patients vote‚ saying that majority would win. Nurse Ratchet new that she had enough power that the patients would not vote with McMurphy‚ simply because they didn’t have the heart to stand up for what they wanted‚ and was scared of nurse Ratchet. Next‚ McMurphy challenges her again and he still
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Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” written by Ken Kesey the main character of the novel‚ McMurphy deliberately sacrificed his own ultimate freedom in order to highlight his noble character. His ultimate sacrifice of freedom highlights McMurphy’s value set on the well being and pure freedom of others. The others in this case being patients within the ward. Within the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” protagonist McMurphy often creates an upstir within the ward. Throughout the novel a reader may also
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recounts the tale of protagonist – Randle Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy is admitted to the mental institution and befriends the other patients in his ward and begins a grim struggle with Nurse Ratched. At the core‚ the story is about the struggle between order and chaos‚ and there is no freedom without a little chaos. Yet to maintain order there must be oppression. Whereas McMurphy flies at the seat of his pants‚ Ratchet is an authoritarian stoic. When McMurphy came to the ward he had disrupted the routine
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more secretly‚ so that all of Ratcheds’ patients think that they are in great hands. Throughout the book Ratched starts to lose her authority‚ because of Randle McMurphy (McMurphy). When McMurphy first comes to Ratcheds’ institution McMurphy informs all the other patients that at that point he was going to be the top dog. When McMurphy came to the institution Ratched knew that he was going to be a problem‚ because of the way he introduced‚ and intimidated all of the other patients. “The Big Nurse
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control The Big Nurse had on her patients. The role each character plays in this showdown symbolizes the realistic confrontations between the mentally unstable and the rest of society that has been going on for centuries. Randle Patrick McMurphy is a powerful‚ intelligent man‚ a true non-conformist. He comes to the mental institution to avoid the tedious work forced upon him at the prison he was assigned to. His playful‚ jolly attitude towards the patients surprises them since they have
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