Randle McMurphy is the patient at the Oregon institution that most rebels against Nurse Ratchet who in turn always tries to keep him in line as much as she can. McMurphy gambles a lot, leads a run-away mission to go boating, and in the end sneaks in girls to throw a party in the hospital. These rebellious actions are
He locked her in a room with a customer and she fought back, angering the customer. “The boss” was very angry and hit Srey, leaving a welt on her face; she was then raped and beaten. To keep her compliant, she was forced to take a pill known as “the happy drug.” Along with her fellow captives, Srey was kept naked and forced to work seven days a week, fifteen hours a day. They were fed scarce amounts of food as customers were dissatisfied with overweight girls. One night some of the girls made a daring escape from the tenth floor apartment that they were housed in, going out onto the balcony to traverse a thin five inch plank across the twelve foot wide chasm between buildings to a balcony on a neighboring building.
In the first possible way that fiction can be used to tell the truth is by understanding and reading into or about the events in a fiction story. If you know the truth behind the actual story it is very revealing to how it is in reality. For example, in the story One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is related to Ten Days in a Mad House in the revealing way of how the patients are treated by the doctors and especially the nurses in the institutions. Both of the nurses were abusive and or either threatening. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ratched was the mean and threatening nurse who would tell her insane patients that they would electroshock therapy if they didn’t obey or if they were misbehaving.
He comes into the asylum and starts stirring up trouble with the head nurse, Nurse Ratched. Mac, as he is commonly called, then begins to try and bring some of the outside world in, be it through playing basketball or watching the world series. He also takes the other patients on grand adventures, be it on a boat or at the party in the ward. He begins to grow a bit attached to the patients, and when one of them takes his own life after an incident in the ward, Mac snaps and becomes violent. He attempts to kill Nurse Ratched and is taken away and lobotomized.
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.
The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon. Then Marion, who works in a real state office, in a moment, decides to steal $ 40,000 and flees the state. On her way, she stops by Bates Motel. After talking to Norman Bates, a disturbed young man and also the owner of the motel, who apparently lives with his old and invalid mother, Marion is murdered by Norman’s mother in her room while taking a shower. Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake.
Everything seems to be in Alex’s favor until his gang grows tired of his tyranny, and decides to trick him, landing him in prison after murdering a widowed cat lady. After serving a partial jail sentence, Alex is let out for what he comes to know as the “Ludovico Technique” which using nauseating drugs and overly violent films, conditions Alex against his violent nature. The novel, which was later adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, became a controversial subject of debate for many years, as several copycat crimes followed its release. According to fiction writer Joseph Aisenberg; “a woman was raped by assailants performing “Singing In the Rain”; boy gangs marauded around England dressed as the droogs; Arthur Bremmer, who shot George Wallace, reported in his diary having watched the movie and been inspired to get Wallace all through it” (Aisenberg, 3). The existence of violence in the novel is paralleled by an immersion of fine art and culture, but is severely limited due to the narration style of the story.
Manipulated easily by Iago, that he wrongly considers as his friend, he falls into all the traps set by Iago and finally kills his wife and himself while McMurphy sees at the first glance how the Big Nurse got the power and manipulates the patients and the hospital staff as shows this sentence of McMurphy, just after his first meeting:” Is this the usual pro-cedure for these Group Therapy shindings? Bunch of chickens at a peckin' party?”. We can conclude that Othello is pretty naive and tends to trust the wrong people when McMurphy is smart and as good as the Big Nurse to manipulate people. But we can add that Iago is also more discret and smarter than the Big Nurse, who is clearly the ennemy, which makes him more difficult to detect. This point is
Green mile was about a 8-foot giant, John Coffey, who cries, is scared of the dark and has god given powers. He stumbles by two young girls in help, yet finds them too late for him to cure them and bring them to life. He then was sent on death row to the Louisiana state penitentiary, accused of killing the girls. The story takes place mostly on the “E-block”, the block where Paul worked. Paul worked along side with his fellow guard mates.
Symbolizing a valiant struggle between free will and conformity, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a powerful, electrifying, and important piece of American literature. The story, set in the late 1950’s, in an Oregon mental hospital reveals some truth about mental hospitals during the time frame (Shmoop). The hospital uses older fashioned techniques; however, they were quite modern at the time. The lack of modern medication and treatment options are painfully apparent. This becomes particularly evident when McMurphy has a Frontal Lobotomy operation(a severing of the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain), which is almost unheard of due to advances in treatments.