One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

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Human Behavior One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 4/28/11 After watching the movie “ One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” I noticed relations to Psychology and the behavior behind labeling a disability. Randall Mcmurphy, the main character, was put in the institution due to reckless behavior in jail that concerned the correction officers, he was sent to be watched to see if he could be labeled with having a learning disability. Throughout the film the head nurse watches over the students in the institution, Nurse Ratched, she is a very deceiving women and very strong spoken, this upsets McMurphy and they begin having arguments frequently about certain situations that Mcmurphy doesn’t agree with. These sense are what label the students to being disabled. One scene the students were all in their circle doing their normal discussion talks about issues they might have with their life that Nurse Ratched leads, as they were discussion and issue everyone in the group began to get very nervous about the topic and Cheswick got upset and began outraging about his cigarettes. This made Nurse Ratched very upset and Mcmurphy began defending him but Cheswick wanted his own cigarettes and was made that Nurse Ratched keeps his cigarettes. This scene is very important because the men begin to take stand for themselves, but this also shows his learning disability because of his consistent outrageous behavior. Everyone around the circle is very upset with Cheswick and chaos begins to happen which cause issues and the Nurses take Cheswick away. Once these people are admitted then begin to get use to the normal schedule and when Mcmurphy came in and began disagreeing with this perfect schedule the other students began realizing their behavior has adapted to the certain layout of the day, which then makes them angry. This causes Cheswick to outburst his opinion on the cigarettes, making
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