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.
Medical Assistants should have a friendly, pleasant personality, and should work to put patients at ease and calm their fears. An AMA should also empathize with her patients and show concern for their things. A
Chief Bromden's well-informative backstory is completely removed from the movie. However, his backstory obviously would be almost impossible to show Bromden's pre-hospital life, nor have the movie told from the Chief's point of view as the chief habitually feigns muteness. Other characters such as Nurse Ratched and Randall McMurphy are slightly altered by the director and screenwriters to better fit the movie. Nurse Ratched is no longer the omnipotent dictator of her ward but is still an intimidating power-player in the ward. McMurphy goes through many states of mind in the novel.
Through Chief Bromden’s narration, the movie establishes that McMurphy is not, in fact, crazy, but rather that he is trying to manipulate the system to his advantage. His belief that the hospital would be more comfortable than the Pendleton Work Farm, where he was serving a six-month sentence, haunts McMurphy later when he discovers the power Nurse Ratched wields over him—that she can send him for electroshock treatments and keep him committed as long as she likes. McMurphy’s sanity contrasts with what Kesey implies is an insane institution. Nurse Ratched represents the oppressive mechanization, dehumanization, and emasculation of modern society—in Bromden’s words, the Combine. Ratched has complete control over every aspect of the ward, as well as almost complete control over her own emotions.
In the novel entitled, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the author Ken Kesey expresses how various characters are inaccurately perceived by others based on the image they portray rather than who they truly are. One afternoon patients line up in front of the gray television. Instead of watching the baseball game, they listen to McMurphy tell his stories. As McMurphy shares his stories, Chief sees how zealous 1 he is telling them. Chief begins to notice McMurphy’s vulnerabilities when he states, “How could a man who looked like him paint pictures or write letters to people or be upset and worried like I saw him once when I saw him get a letter back?” (Kesey162).
Soon after, the author adds something or someone abnormal, and the story becomes mysterious and paranormal. Another thing that tricks the reader into thinking that the stories do not involve anything supernatural is their titles. The names of both short stories do not sound like they are related to anything unordinary. The other thing that I noticed is that Ray Bradbury uses a lot of foreshadowing in his short stories. In the "Fever Dream," Charles is very sick.
Pg. 1-125; Part 1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey revolves around the lives of patients in an institution of psychology, who are restrained by the institute’s staff. This novel is a blend of fact and fiction, ranging from true representations of character that actually lived in the mental hospital to fictional characters that add emotion and meaning to the novel. A character that pulled my attention is R.P. McMurphy, who is an individual, who is ready to die than to surrender to someone’s orders for his own selfish reasons.
Developing Professional Practice – HS611 Introduction: For the purpose of this assignment the author has chosen to concentrate on developing professional practice within the Community Mental Health Team, where in they are currently employed. The focus group for the area of practice development is clients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. This group of people have been chosen due to the increase chance of them developing uncomfortable, debilitating side effects as a result of taking these medicines. Some of these side effects can be treated but some are irreversible and can cause serious distress and discomfort for the client. Non-compliance with medication is often due to adverse effects however involving the clients in the recognition and management of them can help to overcome this.
He found that they appeared to be asleep yet were able to follow what he was saying. Similarly Puysegur found other clients also had the same reaction and thus rejected any magnetic force and suggested that it was more psychological force. Further work and development on this subject saw an English Doctor named James Braid who used the term hypnosis derived from the Greek God of sleep ‘Hypnos’. Whilst this was not an ideal name, as it doesn’t have anything to do with sleep he still felt that hypnosis was to do with suggestion and developed the eye fixation technique to get his clients into a trance state. Freud on the other hand felt positive that humans had mental processes and thus supported Hypnosis initially until he become more involved in free association, which is still used today.
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey makes certain the difference is noticeable between the patients from Nurse Ratched’s ward and the ‘normal people’ in the outside world. This illustrates how, in order to not seem to be a psychopath, the families living in these communities conform to society’s expectation of them. Whereas the patients who reside in the ward are very individualistic and are, for the most part, not afraid of showing who they truly are to the other patients they feel comfortable with. Patrick McMurphy’s character shows us how being your self is not that bad of a thing. Patrick McMurphy is an ornery, loud, idiosyncratic individual.