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Although there are numerous themes in the story, Manipulation is one of the key terms. An extremely powerful and unique skill. There are numerous ways to use it, but a selected number of people have the skill and ability to use it. There are a couple of characters in the book that know how to use this skill. The first character that manipulates patients and other people is Nurse Ratched. The second character is McMurphy. The third topic is about how both Nurse Ratched and McMurphy use their manipulative powers against each other. Manipulation is used in the book in a deceptive way. The characters use it to benefit themselves instead of the other patients.

Nurse Ratched has numerous different attitudes. She seems to have a split personality. It appears that Nurse Ratched can control what mood she wants to be in. She can be a very manipulative person. One example of her manipulating people is when she tells the patients that the Shock Shop, group meetings, lobotomies and other surgical procedures are good for you. They are all done for the patients good and also to benefit them. All of the patients know that the nurse's therapies are bad for them, but they are too afraid to fight authority. In a way she has manipulated them so they will not fight her or argue with her about anything no matter what.

Out of the patients, there is one of them that can use the manipulative power is McMurphy.
The third topic is about how Nurse Ratched and McMurphy manipulate each other. One example of McMurphy manipulates is when he goes behind Nurse Ratched's back and turned the tub room into a card room. But he quickly changed his ways when she started revealing personal things about him in the group meetings. Nurse Ratched also turns against McMurphy about the boating trip. She also has other ways of manipulating McMurphy by sharing personal information about him, or blackmailing him, or embarrassing him in some other way.

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