One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

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The plot of the story One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest takes place inside of a mental hospital. The narrator is patient in the hospital whose name is Chief Bromden, his mental status and diagnosis develops as the story progresses. Every patient in the hospital is placed in two separate categories, the acute, who can be cured, and the chronics who cannot be cured. This plays a very important part throughout the story. 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. Randle McMurphy was transferred from jail to the…show more content…
This backfired on Nurse Ratchet in one discussion. When Randle figures out that the majority of the other patients are voluntary and can leave whenever they want he becomes enraged. Randle does not understand why the patients don’t stand up for themselves. This starts a riot between the patients and the orderly’s. This is when Randle also realizes that by standing up to Nurse Ratchet it is buying him more time in the hospital. From this point on he conforms to the…show more content…
Nurse Ratchet claimed that the patients enjoyed it, and that it soothed everyone. Now although it was been proven to sooth the mood of people it doesn’t always work for everyone. It is although a great way to attempt to try to relax a

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