Contain everybody in a box, under her surveillance so everyone should follow her rules. So she holds absolute authority over her patient and her staff that work with her at the hospital. Another great character that I believe takes a great deal of part in this story is chief Bromden. The story is basically being told by him; through he’s eyes and year. He’s diagnosed with paranoid-schizophrenic.
Through the schedule Nurse Ratched is able to keep order around the ward, knowing exactly where the patients are and what they are doing at every given time. Nurse Ratched is also able to manipulate the patients by rewarding themwith extra sleeping hours in return for spying on one another and writing things in the log book. Nurse Ratchedalso uses guilt to control the patients. In the group meetings, Nurse Ratched exposes the patient’s personal files and reads them
Tess Walston Meushaw Hon Eng 11 17 November 2011 Sanity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckcoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey shows sanity as conforming to the authority. Although in the story, the authority is the one that acts out insanely. In the novel, Chief Bromden narrates his life in a mental hospital. He tells the tale of when a man named McMurphy comes to the ward and goes against all of the rules of Big Nurse Ratchet. McMurphy claims to be sane, and states that he is only here to get out of being in jail.
His hallucinations are full of fantastic images of machinery, wires, and other devices that the nurse uses to control the patients on the ward. He also sees people literally change in size; as the nurse’s power and influence grows, Bromden sees her grow physically as well. As the Chief develops into a more autonomous, sane character, he imagines himself growing from a diminutive size to a fully grown individual at the end of the novel. All of his
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest By: Maryam Dimson Pd. 3 The movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, tells the story of McMurphy who is sent to a mental institution because they believe that he is insane and they want to evaluate him. In actuality McMurphy is sane. When he comes to the mental ward, he only wants to get out of the work that jail time entails. While in the mental ward, he interacts with the patients of his ward and ends up changing their worlds completely.
In Poe’s story, the narrator was a very nervous man but doesn’t want the reader to think he is insane. Throughout the story he tries to defend his sanity. He even goes on to say “The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them” (37). How can he be crazy if his senses have been heightened? The narrator communicates to the reader how he thinks he is sane by justifying his actions.
Patrick McMurphy is an ornery, loud, idiosyncratic individual. He believes he should act whichever way he feels like. This turns around to have a negative impact on his life however, because of his rash, exaggerated actions he finds him self being scrutinized. He still sticks to his own ways though, which Bromden points out when he says, “Maybe that’s it he never gave the Combine a chance [..] because a moving target is hard to hit”(92). McMurphy doesn’t let ’the Combine’ of people outside the ward get him down or change who he really is.
Introduction (1 525 words) The ground breaking novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” written by Ken Kesey, the Pied Piper of the psychedelic era, was published in 1962 and is a story set in a mental institution which is narrated by the gigantic but docile half-Native American inmate "Chief" Bromden. It focuses on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve out his prison sentence, for statutory rape, in the hospital. The head administrative nurse, Mildred Ratched, rules the ward with an iron fist and emasculates the male patients by prying on their weaknesses. Kesey's use of symbolism in the novel created a critical and allegorical tone; the hospital is presented as metaphor for the oppressive society of the late 1960s and the Beatnik era that saw many rebel against the strict social constructs. The characters in the novel challenge the social norms of gender as the Nurse epitomises the expression of sexual dominance as the ultimate goal and denounces repression through instilling fear in others, that ultimately sees the emergence of Randle McMurphy as the antihero as he embodies the nature of a rebel and opposes social constructs of the 1960’s.
An Organized Dictator In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the reader dives into a story about life within the walls of confinement of a mental ward. According to the Kansas City Star, “You feel this book along your spine.” This novel is influenced by Kesey’s outrageous life experiences; the two most influential being his voluntarily participation in an experiment with psychoactive drugs, like LSD, cocaine, mescaline, AMT, among others, and his work at Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital. These experiences inspired him to write this novel that was published in 1962. The novel takes place in a mental hospital in Oregon and tells the story of a head nurse named Miss Ratchet that tries to run her ward like an organized dictatorship where her authority is supreme. Miss Ratchet is the main antagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen” (p.8). The quote shows the real beginning in the book by Chief Bromden, and illustrates slightly how Bromden acts, feels and thinks. Bromden lives in his own thoughts and feelings and does not share them with the other patients. Life with talking would be probably too stressful for him.