Randle Mcmurphy Analysis

The brevity of the two words had not fallen short of having miles of meaning behind them. They had gathered the meaning of the novel into one and in doing so, served a greater purpose to the reader, who is essentially being represented in the novel through the ward patients. There is no getting around the symbolic use of the combine as society, an inescapable concept in which we all have been placed . Randle McMurphy is our best selves- the difficulty found in how we get to access that part in ourselves amidst such a pressured setting .In the ward, Nurse Ratched holds the most amount of power above not only the patients, but the other people that work there as well such as the doctor; she does this through holding fear above them. As humans, we tend to fall
Nurse Ratched strives to have a sterile ward and the only time sex ever came into play was in raping the patients to gain their submission. When McMurphy had been playing cards and boardgames with his fellow patients he was attempting to reinstate their beings. He was the sanest among the insane, and the insane are not the other patients but those who work in the ward. Through out many novels authors use “insane” characters to serve a much greater purpose, they usually end up being the sanest and it goes to show how being a misfit, is actually one of the greatest things you could be. “Guts ball” is having the bravery to be your own separate person when it is looked down upon through societal standards; it is being able to keep true to yourself when there is a constant pressure to change. Ken Kesey served the novel as a warning of what societal views are capable of doing to out best selves, to our McMurphy’s in this case. There is no getting away from society because as much as we may try getting away from it, we are members of it. The trick is to have the guts ball to sticking to