One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Laughter Analysis

There’s power not only in violence but in laughter. Ken Keysey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is about machinery and power of laughter and reveals how your past situations can show how you think in recent situations.These two show how different people think and what they compare objects to, and what laughter does to the people around the person laughing. Chief describes the asylum as an machine-natured system. Not only does Bromden describe the asylum machine-like but also sees society as a giant machine which he calls the combine., “she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load” (Kesey p. 5)This shows how even people are seen as machinery to Bromden. While reading the book you realize why machinery is such a big factor to Bromden, it relates to his past. Growing up in a tribe Bromden remembers how when he was was ten years old, three government officials came to see his father about buying the tribe’s land so they could build a hydroelectric dam, but Bromden was home alone. When he tried to speak to the officials, they acted as if he was not there. This experience shows why he withdrawals into himself, and initiates the outside world’s treatment of …show more content…
Yes, in this asylum there was no laughter. Mcmurphy brought laughter with him the day he came and it made everyone nervous. “The acutes are grinning now, not so uneasy anymore, and glad that something out of the ordinary’s going on.”(Kesey p.20). Throughout the book we see how Mcmurphy’s laughter leads the patients to trust him and go into his lead of rebellion. We also see nurse Ratchet feels over powered by Mcmurphy. “Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption.”were the words of nurse Ratched about her thoughts on Mcmurphy. This shows that nurse Ratched believes Mcmurphy would try to take over and disrupt how she was running the