other patients that her way is the only option. The reader is then finally introduced to the last main character who is Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy is the game changer in the ward. He was involuntarily submitted and extremely detests the way that Ratched is running the ward. The novel is in essence a power struggle between Ratched and McMurphy. The first milestone that McMurphy succeeds in is
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When Chief is describing his or other people’s size‚ he is portraying their confidence and their power within the ward. That is why at first‚ he sees himself as small‚ McMurphy as huge‚ and Nurse Ratched as the "Big Nurse”; ultimately‚ as he himself regains his self-confidence‚ he
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The concept of power almost automatically denotes the idea of undeniable strength and might. In societal terms‚ it results from the fear of force‚ in which the ruler (or state) possesses a high level of strength‚ and thus the individual behaves based on concern for the penalties of noncompliance. According to Socrates‚ however‚ true power involves more than mere physical force‚ and this philosophical argument becomes the main focus of "Gorgias‚" his dialogue with Greek philosopher Callicles. Basically
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Psychoanalytic Approach Textual Passage Nurse Pilbo: Take your medicine‚ Mr. McMurphy McMurphy: What’s in the horse pill? Nurse Pilbo: It’s good for you. Don’t get angry‚ Mr. McMurphy McMurphy: I’m not getting angry‚ Nurse Pilbo. I just don’t like taking anything when I don’t know what it is. I don’t want anyone slippin’ me saltpeter‚ if you know what I mean. Nurse Ratched: That’s okay‚ Nurse Pilbo. If Mr. McMurphy does not want to take his medicine‚ we will just have to arrange for him to have
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In this quote‚ Chief Bromden says‚ “I been silent so long it’s going to roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened‚ this is too awful to be the truth! But‚ please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”(Act 1 32) Chief Bromden‚ a long-term patient in Nurse Ratcheds psychiatric ward‚ narrates the events of the novel. The novel
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------------------------------------------------- Vocabulary * Ornery- of a stubborn and mean spirited nature. “The Acutes look spooked and uneasy when he laughs‚ the way kids look in a schoolroom when one ornery kid is raising too much hell…” (P. 14) * Pinochle- a popular card game played by two‚ three‚ or four persons‚ with a 48-card deck. "Hello‚ buddy; what ’s that your playin ’? Pinochle?" (P. 17) * Oxblood- a deep dull-red color. "His face and neck are the color of oxblood leather
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Addtionally‚ the men taste the experience of a rich life filled with freedom of expression and sexuality through the means of McMurphy. Likewise‚ the poem by ____ Restless talks of the longing that she feels to escape her mundane life and experience a rich one. That is what literature is: the experience of life; without literature‚ there would be no life and without life‚ there
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“…She’s somethin’ of a cunt‚ ain’t she Doc?” Although Milos Foreman’s character‚ Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)‚ put his opinion of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) in the most vulgar of terms‚ he was not so far from the truth. In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)‚ Nurse Ratched’s treatment and care of the patients was unethical when compared to the standards one would expect of a health care administrator. She used control over her patients to ensure order‚ without regard to the
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Mother Knows Best: Examining Control‚ Oppression and Matriarchy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey published One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1962‚ during an era of change and certain disillusionment in the United States. It is a classic work of the countercultural movement and was inspired and influenced by some of Kesey’s own experiences. Kesey studied at Stanford University on a scholarship for creative writing. While in school‚ he volunteered for a government research program
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In the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest‚ written by Ken Kesey‚ tells the story of a group of patients in a mental hospital. The patients in the hospital all live under the authority of one nurse‚ Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched’s military‚ totalitarian leadership of the mental hospital combined with the fact that she tries to keep the healable patients under her control makes her the villain in this novel. Nurse Ratched used to work as a nurse in the military‚ indicating she would act tough and
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