He tries to liven the place up on his arrival by playing card games and playing basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. McMurphy has been dating a 15 year old and is sentenced to short term for contributing delinquency of a minor. Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards he is crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients
Bailey Hartman Ms. Tubergen W131 2 April 2012 Comparative Analysis on Obedience In the movie film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, all three types of conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. nature) appear which creates the basis for multiple problems. For example, after the main character, McMurphy, punches a male nurse to defend his friend in the psych ward, Cheswick, Nurse Ratched performs a shock treatment on McMurphy. She does so in an attempt to help the other nurses restrain McMurphy. This type of treatment gives painful shocks to a subject’s head which transfers to the brain killing the “disturbed” brain cells that supposedly cause the subject’s bad behavior. Nurse Ratched not only uses this treatment to help heal her distressed patients but also uses it as a form of punishment towards her patients that create outbursts of conflict.
Silver Linings Playbook does an excellent job of both exposing the daily struggle of those with mental disorders and the perception and blurred lines American society has when viewing mental illness in the country. As the film begins, Pat Solitano, played by Bradley Cooper, is being released from a mental institution after being treated for his newly diagnosed bipolar disorder. He had originally been sent to the institution because he faced assault charges in court. Upon returning home from work early, he found his wife in the shower with another man. Even worse, their wedding song was playing.
This changed how people viewed Finny’s drive to make Gene an athlete, the movie makes him seem more adamant about Gene winning. In the book and in the movie Leper goes crazy and gets kicked out of the army. In the book Finny first finds Leper after leaving the chapel, and in the movie Gene first sees Leper out his room window. Also, in the book, Gene and Leper talk about his discharge at Leper’s house; In the movie Gene talks to Leper in a small wooden hut Leper had made. The Movie makes Leper seem way more wild and dangerous than he seemed in the book.
In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kasey starts off with one of the patients Chief Bromden whom is narrating the events that take place in the ward. The whole institution is controlled by Nurse Ratched a bitter, hostile women whom is revolting towards the patients. The novel leads off with a new patient McMurphy entering the ward who has a major impact on the patients. Being said he encourages the men to go against all the rules dictated by Nurse Ratched. He then starts to place a bet with the patients how he can crack Nurse Ratched without getting displaced and being sent for electroshock.
He uses the tone of the character along with dramatic ‘beats’ to allow the audience to better understand what the characters are trying to say. Doug’s monologue in Act One details the incident which put him into the institution, which helps the audience to understand him better. It also explains the inside joke of ‘Go burn a cat’ which highlights Doug’s instability and the danger he poses to both Lewis and the play. This also allows Nowra to question the effectiveness of modern psychiatry and the effect it can have on someone. Doug’s response to setting his mother’s cats on fire was ‘It was the fault of the psychiatrist...he told me I had an unresolved problem with my mother... and I better fix it’.
Individual Project 2 The Novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest was published in 1962 written by the influential Ken Kesey. The story is narrated by a inmate name McMuphy that tricks his way into the asylum as a way to get out of jail card. While his time there he become rebellious and challenges head in nurse in charged called Nurse Ratched. While he is there challenging Nurse Ratched he ends up changing the life and minds of the other patients who are stuck in there due to Nurse Ratched’s mind power. McMurphy ends up being the asylums hero and a legend due to his death towards the end of the novel.
John Steinbeck introduces us to the novel with Tom our main character recently being released from prison for killing a man in a bar fight. Tom is a new man he feels and is on his was home to his family, not knowing what kind of situation his family and him will soon be in. He seems like a good fellow that only killed a man in self defense and feels that if he had to he would do it again. He almost comes across as he is proud of what he did. As he catches up with his family and travels many miles, his attitude changes drastically.
Holden has proven to hint at the idea that he has been a bit too much influenced by movies, which would most likely be a reason why Allie’s death was such a big deal. The movies have had a role in Holden’s life because they made him to believe that the protagonist or the “good” guy always miraculously survives dire situations, which made him believe that Allie would survive somehow through the leukemia. This idea was hinted towards when Holden was talking about how he felt after Maurice had punched him in the gut, Holden said that he was picturing himself going to the elevator, shooting Maurice, smoking a cigarette, and call up Janet to bandage him up. The idea of the “good” guy winning the battle is a very typical movie type of ending, which points to how influenced Holden is by the movies. The very same type of ending was seen when Holden recalled the movie he watched about the Englishman who had lost his memory and his response to it.
Each of these films portrays Hamlet’s madness when he realizes that he is being watched by violently acting up towards Ophelia. The settings and background in each film also reveals Hamlet’s feigning madness from the awareness of being watched. Bennett’s film version was played in the era of the 13th and 14th century, this was filmed in an enclosed room with various entranceways and as Hamlet asks Ophelia where her father is he begins to open all the doors to check. In Branagh’s version it was played in the 1800’s and was filmed in a very elegant room with contrasting black and white floors, mirrors placed