Bailey Hartman Ms. Tubergen W131 2 April 2012 Comparative Analysis on Obedience In the movie film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, all three types of conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. nature) appear which creates the basis for multiple problems. For example, after the main character, McMurphy, punches a male nurse to defend his friend in the psych ward, Cheswick, Nurse Ratched performs a shock treatment on McMurphy. She does so in an attempt to help the other nurses restrain McMurphy. This type of treatment gives painful shocks to a subject’s head which transfers to the brain killing the “disturbed” brain cells that supposedly cause the subject’s bad behavior. Nurse Ratched not only uses this treatment to help heal her distressed patients but also uses it as a form of punishment towards her patients that create outbursts of conflict.
Tom Parsons appears in the cell. His daughter has told the police that her father is guilty of thoughtcrime. Chapters 11–12: O’Brien admits that he wrote a large part of Goldstein’s book and that the Party only wants power. O’Brien sends Winston to Room 101 where rats, the thing that Winston most fears, are waiting to eat him. Finally, he begs O’Brien to kill Julia rather than himself and so betrays her.
Big nurse replies “its good therapy”. Another time she provoked a patient at the end of the book she caused him to kill his self. It was Billy Bibbit and nurse Ratched threatened to inform his mother about his disobedient actions.
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.
When McMurphy goes over to confront her we see her slide the glass open this shows how nurse Ratched places herself as the higher authority and how much of a barrier there is between her the men. Another scene where Nurse Ratched belittles and takes away the men’s humanity is when she is talking to Billy Bibbit after finding the he had slept with Candy. When Billy first starts talking he is confident with no lisp but as soon as Nurse Ratched starts looking down on him and says to him “Billy I will have to tell your mother about your behaviour” billy shrinks and starts getting nervous making his lisp come back this scene symbolises how much Nurse Ratched downgrades Billy making him feel less confident and ashamed. This scene shows that even though all people no matter what race religion or gender have a right to freedom but that freedom can be cut down straight away by
Each of the ward patients follows Nurse Ratched orders because they fear her. McMurphy helps the patients by challenging the Big Nurse position. When McMurphy challenges the Nurse, he shows the patients how tough and courageous he is. This influence the patients to be more aplomb and fearless. McMurphy is a martyr because he does all he can to challenge the patients at the ward to find themselves.
Nurse Ratched, the authoritative figure who controls the ward, is believed to be providing help for mentally ill men. The tension begins when Randal P. McMurphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life, is placed in a mental hospital in Oregon to avoid the physical labor of a prison farm. Immediately his presence begins to alter the environment of the mental ward. He brings with him amusement, disorder, and rebellion as he begins his quest to become the “Bull Goose Looney”. This then develops into a complicated battle between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched; McMurphy fighting for individual freedom, and the nurse fighting for confinement.
Nurse Ratched also uses fear to manipulate the patients through the media cuttings about the danger of fishing she places on the walls in part 2 and likewise, at the group meeting in Part 1 where Nurse Ratched encourages the patients to humiliate Harding about his wife. McMurphy describes the other patients like “a bunch of chicken’s at a peckin’ party”, attacking each other in fear to prevent them being
He describes in detail to his kids every employees name and how they all piss him off one way or another. Having this stroke has made him feel like a “carcass” (4). He shows his hatred throughout the story not only through words, but by giving the reader images by talking about his days spent in the hospital. “Every hour or few they would wake me up, I was dazed because I didn’t sleep enough” (4). Mr. Sanchez does not like when
Until about 2 years ago I was easily sucked into whatever needed fixing, running to the rescue. The problem was, no matter what I did to help they would go back to the situation leaving me feeling hurt, drained emotionally, depressed and unavailable to my own children. I now keep myself outside of the situations I listen but do not try to fix, reminding myself that this problem is about them and not me. If I feel unable to distance myself I draw a deep breath, excuse myself and walk away. In my work life at the hospital there always seems to be vicarious trauma happening between staff creating distraction throughout the day.