Each of the ward patients follows Nurse Ratched orders because they fear her. McMurphy helps the patients by challenging the Big Nurse position. When McMurphy challenges the Nurse, he shows the patients how tough and courageous he is. This influence the patients to be more aplomb and fearless. McMurphy is a martyr because he does all he can to challenge the patients at the ward to find themselves.
McMurphy stands up for the patients on the ward and sets the example that they have a right to ask the question, why. There are many ways of controlling those you want kept in a certain formation, Ms. Ratched’s way is by using scare tactics. She uses all types of ways to get the patients on the ward to believe that she is helping them, and sets up strict regulations for their own good. When she caught Billy Bibbit in the room with one of McMurphy’s girls, she threatened him by talking about telling his mother. Knowing that his mother is the root of his stutter and insecurities, she scared him back into the obedient patient he was before McMurphy came to the ward.
In the video, it seemed she had a problem with anger especially towards any authority figures. Also in the video, I noticed how much incidents the correctional workers reported having to go to her cell to either resist her or to deal with her self harm behaviour. The newscast stated that when Ashley entered the jail system, she tried to strangling herself with bed sheets several times to get attention from staff and cutting herself on her hands and other parts of her body. I definitely felt Corrections Canada failed to protect Ashley and instead wanted to protect their reputation. I was horrified and sicken by the fact that Corrections Canada changed documentations and instructed guards not to respond to her self-strangling attempts and kept transferring her to different facilities to prevent doing a mandatory
In the first possible way that fiction can be used to tell the truth is by understanding and reading into or about the events in a fiction story. If you know the truth behind the actual story it is very revealing to how it is in reality. For example, in the story One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is related to Ten Days in a Mad House in the revealing way of how the patients are treated by the doctors and especially the nurses in the institutions. Both of the nurses were abusive and or either threatening. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ratched was the mean and threatening nurse who would tell her insane patients that they would electroshock therapy if they didn’t obey or if they were misbehaving.
Video paper One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Sociology of Deviant Behavior Inst. R. Peters 4/20/2011 This movie was about the inmate Randle McMurphy’s feigning insanity to finish his prison sentence in the mental ward rather than the work camp. Randle McMurphy McMurphy showed signs of the Marxism’s conflict theory, focusing on the struggles between the classes (nurses and patients).McMurphy had violated the norms of the society when he was charged with statutory rape and sanctions were imposed sending him to prison. McMurphy creates a society amongst the patients at the mental institution which largely impacts the structure of the institution. His relationships with the other patients develop their thoughts and this interferes with the flow of the institution’s rules and regulations, which are the social control norms of the institution.
Nurse Ratched, the authoritative figure who controls the ward, is believed to be providing help for mentally ill men. The tension begins when Randal P. McMurphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life, is placed in a mental hospital in Oregon to avoid the physical labor of a prison farm. Immediately his presence begins to alter the environment of the mental ward. He brings with him amusement, disorder, and rebellion as he begins his quest to become the “Bull Goose Looney”. This then develops into a complicated battle between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched; McMurphy fighting for individual freedom, and the nurse fighting for confinement.
The humor was there but the main point of the play was lacking. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, narrated by the humongous but docile half-Native American inmate "Chief" Bromden, focuses on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve out his prison sentence for statutory rape in the hospital. The head administrative nurse, Mildred Ratched, rules the ward with a mailed fist and with little medical oversight. She is assisted by her three black day-shift orderlies, and her assistant doctors. McMurphy constantly antagonizes Nurse Ratched and upsets the routines, leading to constant power struggles between the inmate and the nurse.
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.
When McMurphy discovers that many of the patients are in the hospital because they don’t have the courage to get out into the real world he gets upset but also embarrassed because it is evident that Nurse Ratched’s therapy and methods to help the men are designed to undermine the little confidence they do have, not encourage it. In my opinion Nurse Ratched’s should be put into the asylum for abusing her authority and dehumanizing the patients and replacing it with blind conformity. McMurphy, is the person who sees everything that Nurse Ratched is doing. By showing the other patients how to create their own standards of sanity, McMurphy greets a bunch of institutionalized nervous wrecks back towards their humanity. McMurphy and I both think that society is corrupt and if you are no danger to yourself or society you are not insane, you may be different but you are most definitely not
As in every good plot there is a villain character played by Nurse Ratched. She is a former Army nurse who runs a strict hospital and whose practices are questionable and harsh. There is one other important character and that is Randle McMurphy. These three characters demonstrate the controversy of the different methods that were once used as treatment in psychology. In this psychological hospital there are two methods used, the behavioristic and biomedical methods are used to treat patients.