The police who were summoned recall only that they regarded him as highly intoxicated, but they did get him to Charity Hospital. The next morning his friends learned of his predicament and had him removed to Hotel Dieu. There is no dispute but that Margreiter had been severely beaten, or that he endured great suffering and retains some effects of his injuries. 3 Margreiter testified that when he entered his room, he turned on the television and began to look at the program of association meetings for the
When he is found by one of the nurses aids and Nurse Ratched sees him he says “I can explain everything”, Nurse Ratched says “aren’t you ashamed Billy”, and he boastfully replies “no, I’m not”. Indisputably Billy lost his stutter when he slept with Candy. At the beginning of the film Chief Bromden pretends to be deaf and dumb, he does this in order to escape the reality of his life. Through the ‘Mise en scene’ we can see that when McM first goes to the ward Chief is deaf and dumb because he stands crouched and holding a broom but not moving, his face is also motionless and he doesn’t respond when called, however through he long shot we see that he towers over McM. When McM joins the ward he asks about Chief and is told that
Some of the participants got “sloppy” and these were not all Irish and Chinese.” (Document 16-1 p. 34). He describes how the Vice President of the Union Pacific and one Governor both missed a spike on their first try, and the crowd reacted by howling at miss and slapping one another on the back with delight (Document 16-1 p.34). Toponce discusses mainly how everyone behaved during the occasion, which indeed made it an impressive one. 2. During the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, Toponce reveals how the construction camps were filled with all the toughs the west had, and implied that drinking and gambling were the blandest things people would do there (Doc 16-1 p.34).
In Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, we see a similar situation. Instead of a large group of people fighting an enormous government, we see a seemingly insignificant group of mentally ill patients. They are led by the protagonist Randall P. McMurphy and they struggle against the procedures and conformity of a small mental institution. Within this timeless classic, one can dig not too deeply and find all the makings of the controversial fifties. By analyzing the different characteristics of the book, one can see the parallels between the world of the 1950’s and the world within the ward.
A disturbance after the fishing trip results in McMurphy and the Chief being sent for electroshock therapy sessions, but even this experience does little to tamp down McMurphy's rambunctious behavior. One night, after bribing the night orderly, McMurphy breaks into the pharmacy and smuggles bottles of liquor and two prostitute girlfriends onto the ward. McMurphy persuades one of the women to seduce Billy Bibbit, a timid, boyish patient, with a terrible stutter and little experience with women, so that he can lose his virginity. Although McMurphy plans to escape before the morning shift arrives, he and the other patients fall asleep instead without cleaning up the mess and the staff
Neither of them have met before: in fact Brown goes in to see the Mental Hygienist before Robinson even arrives in the waiting room of the Mentist’s, so they don’t get a chance to meet before going under sedation (being made unconscious). While they are unconscious, their brains are put in separate brainboxes to be cleaned, while their bodies are kept alive on life support machines. Unfortunately, the Mental Hygienist is having a bad hair day and he forgets which brain is in which brainbox. Robinson’s brain goes into Brown’s body. Brown’s brain goes into Robinson’s body.
Why, friend, that’s most unlikely.” (Kesey, p.54,55) With this type of thinking throughout the novel, that the patients were misguided with what they lack in their lives. By Miss Ratched’s manipulation. When McMurphy comes in the ward with his bolstering personality and laugh, and it instantly breaks up the monotony of the ward.With the Novel progresses. Then McMurphy challenges the Big Nurse to break her down and get under her skin, give the patients their manhood back. Then the guys they need to go into the world since they are an only volunteer and not committed as he is.
Kesey uses Bromden’s narration to depict these characters as ‘humming hate and death’ further emphasising the lack of compassion in the hospital. In contrast Kesey constructs McMurphy as an individual and a person of conscience. Before he is officially introduced to the reader Bromden tells them that ‘he is no ordinary admission’ and that ‘he sounds big’ influencing the reader to view him differently to the other patients. McMurphy’s outspoken nature and his immediate refusal to conform to his new wards rules, on arrival telling them in his ‘loud brassy voice that he’s already plenty damn clean thankyou’ also begins to distinguish him as a unique individual entering a very controlled, regulated hospital system. As McMurphy develops and continues to rebel against Nurse Ratched’s strict rules and the unjust system Kesey reveals more about Nurse Ratched through Chief Bromden, ‘change[ing] back
Since the very beginning he challenges the system in many subtle ways, by demanding changes of the ward policies more in tune with his interest, such as watching the World Series or getting the toothpaste unlocked. Later on, he encourages gambling in the ward, attempts to lift the control panel, and even fights with the aides in order to save his colleague George from getting humiliated. This particular incident gives Nurse Rached the perfect excuse to punish him with electroshock therapy, that he could avoid by admitting he were wrong. Nevertheless, McMurphy is too stubborn to accept those terms, he sticks to his grounds, which is quite admirable, but pointless, as there is no real cause except a useless attempt to prove himself
The novel Lord of the Flies portrays an imbalance of power between characters, like Jack, Ralph, and Piggy. Throughout the novel, Jack and Ralph are constantly against Piggy because they believe they have a greater sense of authority. Piggy genuinely tries to help and give ideas but is always shut down because of the great imbalance of power between the boys. Jack additionally has no regard for Piggy's entitlement to speak and his tribe feels that anything Piggy says is humorous; they ponder "what amusing thing he may need to say.” Bullies most often tend to pick on the weaker children with poor self esteem or no way of defending themselves, thereby giving themselves more