Because Nurse Ratched put fear the patients’ heart, they obey her every demand. However, when the new patient McMurphy who comes from a prison work farm to the hospital, the Big Nurse Ratched starts to lose the power she has over the patients. At the end, the conflict between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, cost McMurphy’s health, his freedom, and, finally, his life. In the novel the obvious differences between two characters mostly shown in their personality, the way threading the people and their sexual view. First of all, Nurse Ratched and McMurphy have totally different personality and different point of view.
The almighty power in charge of these patients is known as Nurse Ratched who is the oppressive and strict figure who represents modern day society. She has complete control over every aspect of the ward such as schedules and privileges. She is presented as a machine like figure in the mind of the narrator, Chief Bromden Along with Bromden and “The Big Nurse”, there is also Randal McMurphy who is an obnoxious, disobedient, loud and sexual figure who defies all norms and rules of the ward causing a great shift in mindset among the patients. Throughout this novel, Bromden observes and pays attention to everything that occurs around him. He presents several elements in the novel which pose extremely significant symbolic meanings such as cigarettes and keys.
The head nurse, Nurse Ratchet, is the main antagonist and the person most interested in attaining power. Nurse Ratchet is an evil lady who enjoys inflicting mental anguish among the patients in the institution; this pain is almost portrayed as a way to make herself feel better, feel superior. She brings up painful past events and shows absolutely no emotion or compassion for her patients. This coldness from Nurse Ratchet is what really enrages the patients causing them to rebel and repel her authority. Randle McMurphy is the patient at the Oregon institution that most rebels against Nurse Ratchet who in turn always tries to keep him in line as much as she can.
Should Women serve in Combat? Should women be in combat? This is the question that has received nationwide attention due to its controversial views. Women and war is a topic that has never had anything in common. As the feminine sex, women have always been connected with caring and creating life not destroying or hindering it.
From small cuts to amputations and more, women underwent the most gruesome constants of war first hand. If surgery was necessary, it consisted of two nurses holding down the soldier and the surgeon working on him with no pain medicine. They witnessed many horrific things from a personal viewpoint influencing these nurses and their diaries & journals.After the war, the field of nursing was changed. Nursing became the profession for mostly all women. The war made society view women as willing to give themselves up to others.
Feminism, which is attributed to Harriet Martineau, is encompassed in the pursuit of gender equality. In one way, we can see the film as a struggle to attain gender equality. In the start and well towards the middle of the film, Mrs. X was always seen as subordinate to Mr. X, her husband. Most of the child-rearing roles were put upon her and most of the decisions were made by Mr. X. Mrs. X always seemed subordinate to Mr. X because she always had to go through great lengths to please him. In the end, however, we see the break in subordinancy and we see Mrs. X becoming independent from him .
Throughout many pieces of literature, specific roles have been laid out for men and women. We do not always realize it, but we get used to the idea of men being the strong and authoritative ones and women being submissive and innocent. This is not the case in Ken Kesey’s novel; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey writes about an overt conflict between the two sexes. Chapter four heavily contributes to the novel because it is the chapter in which we are exposed to how the Big Nurse controls the mental institution, along with its staffing, resources and day-to-day activities.
When discussed at all, women are treated with the same set of narrowly defined attitudes that oppress most women throughout their lives. Usually, they appear as part of the domestic scenery behind the real actors and action of national life. Sexism exists everywhere, and it always will, because the genders are different and those differences affect how genders think and act towards each other. The term sexism came to be due to the fact that the available term "sex discrimination" didn’t properly explain the all-encompassing prejudice in opposition to women in our culture. Sexism has been a social issue here in Belize for centuries.
It is a fact before the arrival of the Taliban, Afghan women struggled for basic rights. Tribal law has long denied women their right to work, education, adequate health care, and personal independence. This is why he said this book have part in women spare and exploitation of honor, sex, marriage, and war. This is why the story is rich read and we can feel the tone greatly. It is considerable literary skills how vividly the war on the streets is depicted in the written text, even though the entire tale unfolds within the confines of a single bedroom.
It then switches to years after when Briony has given up her dream to be a writer and instead becomes a nurse who aids in the war. During this time, there was much inner conflict between Briony’s innate desire for attention and her new position as a nurse. Briony wished her duties as a nurse during the war would act as penance for her actions. She was guilt ridden and that guilt was so consuming, so intense that she claims it “refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime." (McEwan 162) It drove her into becoming something she was not, in order to