Society exists as a force to oppress people, and punish anyone who does not follow what it wants. The renowned author, Ken Kesey, in his novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest addresses the unethical workings of the Combine. Kesey’s purpose was to illustrate how the Combine affected certain individuals in the society that could not fit their standards. He adopts a sympathetic tone in order to portray the inhumanity that the patients must suffer under the Combine, as well as a rebellious tone to show how the patients try their hardest to beat the system.
Kesey begins the novel by showing the power the Combine has over the patients in the asylum through the narrator, Chief Bromden, who is thought to be “deaf and dumb” (10) according to everyone in the ward. The ward in the hospital plays a huge role, as it is “a factory for the Combine” (40) to fix up anyone who defies the way of the system. According to the Chief, “the Combine’s big” (186). It stripped everyone from their humanity, making them work like mindless robots, as he described about Nurse Ratched “I see her sit in the centre of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every …show more content…
As McMurphy rebelled, he told the Chief that he would help with “blowin a man up to full size” (189) and made him promise that once he got as big as he used to be, he would lift the control panel. He kept this promise. After McMurphy’s lobotomy, Nurse Ratched “kept losing her patients one by one” (269) and the night the Chief killed McMurphy, he went to the control room and pulled the control panel hearing the “wires and connections tearing out of the floor” (271) and jumped out the window. He ran and planned to go home as he has “been away a long time” (272). The acute patients, and especially the Chief, had all carried out McMurphy’s fight, only in the outside world. They managed to beat
Kesey begins the novel by showing the power the Combine has over the patients in the asylum through the narrator, Chief Bromden, who is thought to be “deaf and dumb” (10) according to everyone in the ward. The ward in the hospital plays a huge role, as it is “a factory for the Combine” (40) to fix up anyone who defies the way of the system. According to the Chief, “the Combine’s big” (186). It stripped everyone from their humanity, making them work like mindless robots, as he described about Nurse Ratched “I see her sit in the centre of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every …show more content…
As McMurphy rebelled, he told the Chief that he would help with “blowin a man up to full size” (189) and made him promise that once he got as big as he used to be, he would lift the control panel. He kept this promise. After McMurphy’s lobotomy, Nurse Ratched “kept losing her patients one by one” (269) and the night the Chief killed McMurphy, he went to the control room and pulled the control panel hearing the “wires and connections tearing out of the floor” (271) and jumped out the window. He ran and planned to go home as he has “been away a long time” (272). The acute patients, and especially the Chief, had all carried out McMurphy’s fight, only in the outside world. They managed to beat