Why, friend, that’s most unlikely.” (Kesey, p.54,55) With this type of thinking throughout the novel, that the patients were misguided with what they lack in their lives. By Miss Ratched’s manipulation. When McMurphy comes in the ward with his bolstering personality and laugh, and it instantly breaks up the monotony of the ward.With the Novel progresses. Then McMurphy challenges the Big Nurse to break her down and get under her skin, give the patients their manhood back. Then the guys they need to go into the world since they are an only volunteer and not committed as he is.
Since McMurphy is committed Nurse Ratched sees that she can control how long he stays in the hospital. * After the ward is taken to the hospital’s pool McMurphy realizes that he cannot get out of the hospital after his sentence is over. Understanding the new information, McMurphy starts acting more conservatively towards Nurse Ratched. * In the next group meeting Cheswick complains about the rationing of cigarettes. McMurphy doesn’t support Cheswick leading Cheswick to be sent to Disturbed.
Miss Ratchet is the main antagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She is a power hungry tyrant that cold-heartedly runs the mental ward at the Salem, Oregon State Hospital. As the head administrative nurse, she exercises her power over the staff and the patients. She not only is controlling by telling others what to do, but she also enjoys punishing those that disobey or anger her. Nurse Ratchet takes pleasure in being feared by the patients.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Journal Response Project Grace Macapagal (Parts 1 and 2) In the book One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched always get on each other’s last nerve. Ever since McMurphy came to the ward where Nurse Ratched was the head nurse, they’ve had a back and forth conflict. Many people have different opinions on who will win their fight in the end and personally I vote for Nurse Ratched. I think Nurse Ratched will win over McMurphy because she will always have more power to overrule him. Although McMurphy belittles Ratched whenever he has the chance to, she has the power to make him do whatever she says without getting harmed.
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.
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.
Ratched has complete control over every aspect of the ward, as well as almost complete control over her own emotions. In the first few pages we see her show her “hideous self” to Bromden and the aides, only to regain her doll-like composure before any of the patients catch a glimpse. Her ability to present a false self suggests that the mechanistic and oppressive forces in society gain ascendance through the dishonesty of the powerful. Without being aware of the oppression, the quiet and docile slowly become weakened and gradually are subsumed. Nurse Ratched does possess a nonmechanical and undeniably human feature in her large bosom, which she conceals as best she can beneath a heavily starched
McMurphy was portrayed as a heroic individual that sacrificed themselves for others. He, in the end, set the patients free during a long battle with the head Nurse. Nurse Ratched, who was a former Army nurse, was isolated because she always wanted a constant desire of control over everybody in the ward. She stayed inside her Nurse’s station, and always wanted to have power over all the patients, which caused the affect of war upon her. She wanted to be the head of everything, and no one was to be stricter than her.
McMurphy represents freedom in a society controlled by fear and repression as he is the one who tries to fight the one who put fear in the patients, Nurse Ratched. His attempts are heroic as the rest fear her and the electro shock therapy The conclusion of the novel sees the legacy of McMurphy is the complete of the Nurse’s authority and the liberation of the other men. In the battle between the McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, it is ultimately Nurse
The patient was angry because she stated that the nurse was taking too long to get her a room in the emergency department. The patient began yelling obscene words and trying to attack the nurse claiming it was her fault. The nurse stayed calm, did not act out towards the patient, and stayed empathetic to the patient. There are plenty opportunities for violence to occur in the emergency department because it is a fast paced environment, there is a diverse crowd of patients arriving, nurses have a big patient load sometimes, and they are pressured to work fast. Sometimes other nurses start beginning to create problems between each other by saying that they are not moving fast enough or that they are lazy.