the patients feel the glare of the nurse from the window‚ they know they are always being watched which makes them feel inferior and weak. Although the window is transparent‚ it represents a barrier between the patients and the power the nurse has. McMurphy challenges the nurse’s superior power and literally shatters the window to pieces. Bromden describes this act of rebellion. “The glass came apart like water splashing‚ and the nurse threw her hands to her ears. He got one of the cartons of cigarettes
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help of McMuprhy they begin to rediscover themselves and test the power of the institution and Nurse Ratched. “In the group meetings there were gripes coming up that had been buried so long the thing being griped about had already changed. Now that McMurphy was around to back them up‚ the guys started letting fly at everything that had ever happened on the ward they didn’t like.” (18) McMurphy’s defiance of Nurse Ratched spark something inside the patients; that she is just a human and could be stood
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various control issues. Before McMurphy is committed to mental hospital‚ Nurse Ratchet ran a submissive ward and did not have much trouble from anyone. The patients had viewed her as an angel. This is
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Throughout history‚ the struggle of women to gain and sustain power in society has proven to be difficult‚ and has coexisted with a rivalry against the opposite sex. Women have been denied many throughout the course of history. They have been discriminated against‚ lost jobs‚ lost privileges. Women ’s suffrage had not developed in the United States until the Nineteenth Amendment‚ which became effective in time to allow the voting by women nationally in the Presidential election of August 18‚ 1920
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room‚ chiefs memory‚ fishing trip "Working alongside others like her [Ratched] who I call the "Combine‚" which is a huge organization that aims to adjust the Outside as well as she has the Inside‚ has made her a real veteran at adjusting things" McMurphy: scars‚ spirit‚ anti-authoritarian‚ dishonourable discharge‚ disregards social structures‚ prison=distrust in authority‚ Christ: crucifixion in EST‚ “washing hands of whole affair” sacrificial‚ loss of free will‚ submits to power. Ratched: “enters
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A hero is a person who has distinguished courage and ability and can be looked at as a model or ideal. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Randle Patrick McMurphy is seen to be the hero of the story. When McMurphy gets entered into the ward he is the only person in there who has any idea of what the outside world is like anymore. Throughout the movie McMurphy tries to makes the guys‚ which were already in the ward‚ understand what the outside world is like and that the only reason they are stuck
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portrayal of woman in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is in a way‚ a role reversal. The Woman are strong‚ leaders and feed off the power they possess as the men are weak‚ passive-non aggressors who get ordered around and (until the introduction of McMurphy) have no say in what activities or what happens. it retells the story too much and needs fixing but i think that i have almost done this with my final copy‚ please e-mail me on kippa_dog@hotmail.com if you can think of a better way of putting it
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Society is structured as such that those who inhibit it are nurtured to be perfect individuals‚ complicit and expected to conform to the rules. Breaking the pattern‚ as seen with the struggles of characters such as Billy Bibbit‚ Dale Harding and Randle McMurphy‚ can be viewed as a herculean task. The deep-rooted and dangerous effects of uniformity on the human brain can be seen in childhood and beyond‚ clearly shown with Chief Bromden’s past and present. Breaking such norms
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Randall McMurphy in the film ‘One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’‚ was a patient at the Ward (mental institute) located at Oregon‚ 1950’s. He was transferred over from prison deeming he was mentally ill. McMurphy’s sanity was never determined‚ however‚ he appeared dissimilar to other patients. Seeming to be a normal man. He showed intelligence through capturing the hands of other patients‚ helping them to find their voices. As the film progressed‚ McMurphy began to rebel and bend the rules. Nurse
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One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest The novel One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey portrays the 1950’s as a time of craziness. R.P McMurphy‚ one of the protagonists in the novel‚ is a self-centered rebellious man‚ who diligently attempts‚ using his manipulate ways‚ to be the dominant force of the ward. Simultaneously‚ Nurse Ratched is a dominant force‚ which uses her iron fist and mechanical ways to drain the humanity out of her patients. During McMurphy’s time at the ward‚ there is a constant
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