One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Mcmurphy Leadership Style

People have developed many skills and leadership styles, either to make other's lives better or as reaction against existing skills and styles, over time. For example, the idea of Capitalism was developed to provide more freedom to the people and allow them to start their own business. However, as a reaction, communism was developed to provide the equality, a lacking feature in a capitalistic society, to the people. In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is another example of this. Nurse Ratched used authority to gain desired, selfish results. However, this was done in an inhumane manner. As a reaction from the patients, Mcmurphy, who worked and wanted freedom, decides to go against Nurse Ratched with opposing ideas. In One Flew over the Cuckoo's …show more content…
Mcmurphy gives the patients a sense of individual economy, just like how capitalism gives a sense of entrepreneurship to its citizens. Mcmurphy achieves this by introducing gambling to the patients. In page 81, Chief Bromden states: "He gave up trying and settles down to serious dealing. They won the deal off of him a time or two, but he always brought it back or fought it back." By introducing gambling, more specifically Blackjack, to the patients, Mcmurphy gives the patients an idea on gains, loss, risks, opportunity, and debt. Everyday capitalist uses these ideas to maximize profit. One of the reasons why it is related to Mcmurphy is because, in a way, investing in stocks and trading is like gambling. Ever since gambling was introduced to patients, individual economies grew in each and every one. This provided freedom for the patients, and shows that Mcmurphy rather use capitalism than communism to lead the patients. On the other hand, Nurse Ratched centralizes the patients economy. In other words, Nurse Ratched decided to use the opposing idea of capitalism to use: Communism. In page 168, Nurse Ratched states: "' I feel, Doctor, that 3 and 4 and sometimes 5 packages of cigarettes a day are entirely too many for man to smoke. It might be best to impound the cartons men purchased at the canteen and allow each man only one pack a day.'" One of the reasons why Nurse Ratched is centralizing the cigarettes is to prevent Mcmurphy from further dealing gambling with the patients. This ensures Nurse Ratched that the idea of capitalism is not spreading to other wards and patients. Mcmurphy provides the idea of capitalism to the patients by giving them a sense of a capitalist's daily life, and as a reaction, Communism is enacted in the ward to prevent Capitalism from being the dominant