Though I believe this power quest is best shown through Nurse Ratchet’s power over the patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Ken Kesey begins his novel by showing the protagonist Randle McMurphy arriving at an Oregon mental institution in a police car, this shows that McMurphy is already suppressed and most likely not enjoying it. McMurphy was sentenced to the mental institution after getting in trouble with the law and at the prison. While at the institution McMurphy is monitored by nurses both male and female. The head nurse, Nurse Ratchet, is the main antagonist and the person most interested in attaining power.
In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey, takes a place in a mental hospital. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden, the patients and institution staff assume that he is deaf and dumb. The patients in a mental hospital were controlled by Nurse Ratched who known as a Big Nurse. She is a cold and precise woman, and she is a head of the ward. Because Nurse Ratched put fear the patients’ heart, they obey her every demand.
“Yes” is the answer this machine wants. A “but” is frowned upon. A “no” is suicidal. In Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, society clearly exerts this kind of power by seemingly “choosing” the inhabitants of the mental ward. It even delegates the delightful Nurse Ratched to govern their pitiful existence.
Meaning McMurphy was nearly an ant and Nurse Ratched a child with a magnifying-glass. Even so, McMurphy was naïve about his circumstances, thus Nurse Ratched was in control for the beginning portion of his sentence. He underplayed the law, and induing so he withdrew his right to individuality to Nurse Ratched, giving society control over him. However, the other patients began to realize the supporting McMurphy they stood a better chance fighting for their
A look at every theatre is a reflection of the cross currents of the society for which it was written. Moliere’s A Physician in Spite of Himself is a period piece that depicts, like other theatrical offerings the ludicrous situation in which Sganarelle finds himself. It does not only deal with the home front and the several troubles that husbands and wives (Sganarelle vs Martine and Lucas vs Jacqueline) go through but also portrays the eye gauge with which the woman is seen. As for Lucinde the rich landlord’s daughter who is denied the freedom of marrying the man of her choice, we find in the whole situation, a scenario where it is not the woman/girl child’s right to love who she wants. Like most African society where such choices are made for the girl child, which usually results in the breakdown of law and order at the home front, Geronte insists that her daughter be married to Horace, a wealthy merchant’s son while Leandre-Lucinde’s heartthrob faces the threat of losing Lucinde because he has no inheritance.
The log book gives the men the impression that they have power over the other patients, but when they record anything in the log book it actually deteriorates the patient’s power, and fuels Big Nurses control. Similarly, Offred and the handmaids must follow the strict rules given by Gilead’s government. The handmaids are taught these rules by the Aunts, and it is the Aunts and Guardians who enforce the laws, such as the red uniforms that handmaids must wear, and the limited topics that they are allowed to speak about. The Aunts install these rules into the handmaid’s minds, and do their best to make the handmaids believe in the laws, and have them enjoy abiding to
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. I will discuss how she uses this power to undermine the masculinity of the male patients and how her established matriarchy maintains a successful order in the institution. Starting with the staffing situation, I will analyze how the the Big Nurse maintains the usual order using the other nurses on the ward. Young Nurse Flinn talks with Nurse Ratched about McMurphy, a scheming new admission with a hidden agenda. The two discuss his motivation for wanting to wreak havoc in the ward.
From watching this film many ethical issues were evident which include the lack of autonomy and veracity. Likewise, doctors violating the principle of non-maleficence and some evidence beneficence principle were also noted. When Anna decided to sue her parents for medical emancipation, the principle of autonomy becomes apparent. Autonomy, which is, defines as the ability of a person to make his or her own decisions. When the Fitzgerald’s decide to have another baby, it was to save their daughter Kate’s life; they genetically engineered Anna to be a saviour for her sister.
He suffers from hallucinations and severe delusions that clog his worldview. He fears most of all a thing he refers to as “the Combine,” a corporation type thing that controls everything in society and forces people to conform to the certain society norm. He pretends to be deaf and dumb, almost to make himself appear invisible, which was difficult being that he was 6’7’’. The hospital is run by a woman by the name of Nurse Ratched, the novel’s antagonist, who Chief refers to as “the Big Nurse.” She is a former army nurse and runs her ward with an iron fist.
She then exits the palace and comes on stage. Rather than being a mess, like what is expected of her at the moment, she appears calm and collected, not like the person who was just crying and screaming inside the palace not so long ago. She talks about Jason’s wrongdoings to her. Creon the king of Corinth then goes to see Medea, informing her that he is exiling her out of his city, as he feels threatened by her as she keeps making death threats, to him, his daughter and Jason. He wants to protect his daughter as much as he can and feels that Medea is a big threat to her safety.