Nurse Ratched manipulates the patients into thinking that the group therapy and such is what is best for them, however she uses techniques such as making the patients belittle each other to “make them better”. “It was better than she dreamed. They were all shouting out to out do one another going further and further no way of stopping, telling things that wouldn't ever let them look one another in the eyes again. The Nurse nodding at each confession and saying Yes, yes, yes”(p.51). By the nurse saying yes, and by her encouraging the patients to out do each other it is showing that she is gaining enjoyment from their pain even though she is telling them that it is for the betterment of them.
Oh Ken Kesey, You’re Cuckoo. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with its meaningful message of individualism, was an extremely influential novel during the 1960's. In addition, its author, Ken Kesey, played a significant role in the development of the counterculture of the 60's; this included all individuals who did not conform to society's standards, experimented in drugs, and just lived their lives in an unconventional manner. An issue of Time Magazine during this decade recalled Ken Kesey’s novel to be, “A roar of protest against middle brow society’s rules and the invisible rulers who enforce them.” (Lehmann-Haup) This protest would be the main mind set of the upcoming 1970s generation in America. Once an LSD consumer, Ken Kesey, defines the importance of freedom throughout his world renowned Post-Modern novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
John Lyly wrote “Euphues and His England,” to describe how great a queen, Queen Elizabeth is. Even though these speeches are all about women’s authority, they have their own differences as well as similarities. In Knox’s speech, he talks about how he thinks women are unfit to rule over men. He uses a variety of vocabulary and appeals to convince the audience that woman should not rule over men. In Lyly’s speech, he states how great the Queen is.
In the book one flew over the cuckoo’s nest the head nurse Ms. Ratched has a set system in which she run the mental facility. Nurse Ratched runs the ward in a totalitarian manner. More or less a matriarchy... where she as the female powered runs every major aspect of the ward. The big Nurse uses persuasive tactics to get the patients to conform to her style in operating the ward. Her ward is operating as a machine that is dull and lust less.
The portrayal of nature in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, shows the contrasts of society as people strive to be perfect and fit in while also struggling to remain individualistic. The director, Milos Forman, uses various sounds to explain the oppressions of the ward while symbolizing the nature as freedom in the first party aftermath scene. He uses certain low shots combined with close ups to establish an order for which the viewer perceives certain characters, explaining the contrast between the leader against followers through power exchange. The use of mise-en-scene supports the difference between original behaviors versus forced behavior, regulations against free will. Through the use of nature sounds and machine sounds, low and high shot types and
For example in Manchurian Candidate Marco says “Manchurian Global is…put(ting) a sleeper in the White House” which emphasises the manipulation of Manchurian global aiming to establish Raymond Shaw as a puppet-president. In turn, highlighting the corruption within the so-called democratic society, and further symbolises this concealing hegemonic society. This correlates with the post September 11 social context, when people developed conspiracy theories, as people were sceptic of the ‘truth’. Likewise in Cuckoo’s Nest Nurse Ratched theoretically claims that the mental hospital is a “democratic ward”. However, practically when McMurphy obtains a majority of votes to watch World Series baseball on TV, Ratched disregards
The media seems to have a pretty generalized view of what a nurse does and what a nurse looks like. In general the media portrays nurses as young, sexy and somewhat unintelligent. This is quite the opposite of what a nurse actually is and does. I will go into detail and critically compare the portrait of a nurse the media describes, and the portrait of a real nurse. In the picture above and from the company, it is clear the nurse is depicted as young, sexy and somewhat unintelligent.
For example, in this story there is an event that takes place where McMurphy, a man who is accused to be insane, sneaks two sane women into the insane institution. This alone in reality can’t happen due to the very watchful night nurses who come and check on the patients repeatedly during the night, these nurses were in the non-fiction story. With that being said it is quite impossible for a man to sneak in two women. This event in the story is what can make the book more unbelievable and harder for the truth to actually come out or for anyone to really understand the
~ In this extract Kesey uses a simple task to highlight the type of power Nurse Ratched has. All the way through the conversation he describes the way she handles the task by “jabbing the needle” while still looking “calm and smiling” this is a symbol/ metaphor for the extreme power and control she has hidden by a “sweet angel” façade. This idea then links to a part where Harding talks about how Nurse Ratched is “ a veritable angel of mercy”. ~This extract is also a first introduction into the case of Mr. Taber, this then directly links up to a story the chief tells about him. When Nurse Ratched adds “For a while” this insinuates instantly before chief tells the story that something was done with Mr.Taber to restrict him from being a “Ward Manipulator”.
In this paper oppressive power is the main focus. Oppressive power according to Michel Foucault is the force in play during acts of cruelty, hatred and violence. In the book “A Child Called It”by Dave Pelzer, a song called “Run Away Love” by Ludacris and the book”One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, shows that in society oppressive power can determine who has the upper hand in situations. Power is something that can lead people to make either the right decision or a negative decision. In the beginning of the book “A Child Called It” by Dave Pelzer, Dave and his mother has a positive and loving Delano 2 Relationship that every child wants to have with his mother.