characters to explore ideas in the text? The protagonist of a text acts upon other characters within the novel and help express themes and ideas through these collaborations. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey the protagonist‚ Randle Patrick McMurphy‚ comes into the psychiatric ward that manipulates patients to conform to their rules where he is the black sheep of them all. He constantly challenges Nurse Ratched‚ the caretaker of the patients‚ in an effort to help them in his own way.
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Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The book began with a boisterous Mcmurphy swaggering into the ward of a mental institution and taking it quite by storm. McMurphy rallied the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. But this defiance‚ which started as a sport‚ soon developed into a grim struggle‚ an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched‚ backed by the full power of authority‚ and McMurphy‚ who had only his own indomitable will. What happened when
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Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant‚ wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward‚ the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising‚ life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down‚ starting a gambling operation‚ smuggling in wine and women‚ and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But
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Even the activities were not that energizing. That was what McMurphy was trying to change. He wasn’t satisfied of how the hospital staffs were to the patients. A hero is considered to be any man noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose; especially‚ one who has risked or sacrificed his life. This describes one of the main characters in the highly acclaimed novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ by Ken Kesey. Randle McMurphy is the hero of this novel because he stood firmly against oppressive
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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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medical community. When Randle McMurphy arrives as a transfer from the Pendleton Work Farm‚ Bromden senses that something is different about him. McMurphy swaggers into the ward and introduces himself as a gambling man with a zest for women and cards. After McMurphy experiences his first Group Meeting‚ he tells the patients that Nurse Ratched is a ball-cutter. The other patients tell him that there is no defying her‚ because in their eyes she is an all-powerful force. McMurphy makes a bet that he can
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done 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
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quest that a hero must take consist of seven traditional steps. By becoming selfless like McMurphy did in‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ in order to help the others around him to achieve the goal of becoming a hero. One is also considered to be a hero when he or she stands up against fear and shows courage towards a greater power. These basic concepts of hero are shown in the character Randle Patrick McMurphy. In the novel McMurphry sacrifices himself to go on his hero conquest to help the patients
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highlighted by 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
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Ken Kesey is a novelist that was born in La Junta‚ Colorado and graduated from the University of Oregon. In 1959 he was writing a book but needed money so he participated in an experimental group that paid its participants. These participants were given drugs‚ such as LSD and Mescaline‚ and this was held at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo park‚ New Jersey. Over a period of time‚ he became an attendant in a psychiatric ward and this is what led him to write One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s
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