One day, a new giant African-American prisoner, John Coffey, arrives and sentenced to the death row. He has been convicted of raping and killing two little white girls because he was found with the death bodies in his arms. However, it is a surprise to the guards, John is contrary to what he seems; He is afraid of the dark, very shy, talks softly and seems like an emotional person. When he shakes Paul's hand, Paul feels that he is like a man with nothing to be ashamed of. Paul and his staffs always try to be kind to the death row prisoners by making their death quickly and less painful.
Dr. Watson, sidekick and best friend to Sherlock, and Holmes start to fight several men making their way to the poor woman’s aid. The two free the woman from killing herself and Watson runs toward the hooded man, but is stopped by Holmes before running straight into a long needle in the hooded man’s hands. The police then enter the room and arrest the hooded man, Lord Blackwood, for the murder of five women. The next scene shows Watson in his office he then makes his way to Holmes room where he reminds him of the dinner they have planned with his fiancé. While at dinner Holmes enrages Watson’s fiancé by pointing out she had been married once before from what he deduced using deductive reasoning.
It took me a while to piece together all the information. Many people are infected by the flu, plagues, measles, and many more illness or diseases per year. There is not much people can do to not get sick; but at the hospital there is, and that would be washing your hands. Even though some don’t, doctors should always be washing their hands because they are the ones carrying diseases from patient to patient (Gawande 344). If a doctor sees a patient who has the flu, and doesn’t wash his before he goes to see his next patient, that patient may also get the flu.
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.
Underneath the Insanity “What goes beyond is what you see beyond what you know”, a famous quote by American author and journalist Earnest Hemingway delineates the hidden aspects of the novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. This novel takes place in the mind of a disturbed and paranoid Native American known as Chief Bromden who resides in a mental hospital along with several other characters. He is a giant man physically but a weak and coward person mentally. Bromden undergoes a path towards sanity throughout the novel. The almighty power in charge of these patients is known as Nurse Ratched who is the oppressive and strict figure who represents modern day society.
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.
It is with this mentality that we reflect on Ken Kesey’s wonderful novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A grim satire set amongst the patients and workers in a mental institution, Kesey’s narrative recounts the story of an unpredictable con man that pursues institutionalization as a method of breaking out from the sternness of a prison work farm. Before long, in order to lessen the sexual and emotional feebleness of the men at the institution, he begins to taunt the autocratic Nurse Ratched, irrevocably changing the future of those in the ward. “As he [Jesus] landed he saw a great throng, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a Shepherd.”(Mark 6:34) McMurphy’s entrance onto the ward is much like that of Jesus. Much like Son of God himself, McMurphy saw the people on the psychiatric ward as metaphorical sheep, leaderless and subject to the cunning fox, in the form of Nurse Ratched.
Later in the film Andy takes a young prisoner named Tommy under his wing and finds that Tommy’s old inmate was the real murderer. Andy explains it all to the Warden and he finds it to be a very thrilling fictional story that Tommy cultivated to entertain Andy. Andy had a secretive plan up his sleeve to save him from all those years of misery and gets revenge on the Warden for being such a hypocrite and “obtuse”. As we watch this
While blindfolded he could no longer control is motions, “I stumbled about like a baby or a drunken man” (22) and that shows that he really couldn’t see. It didn’t help that he was inhaling smoke too. He was invisible until he got hit because the men would see that and they’d yell stuff like “kill him” (23) and “slug him, black boy! Knock his guys out”
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