One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A book that contains crude language throughout, paints images of rape and violent adult situations surely deserves to be banned. But One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has a deeper meaning than all the language, rape and drugs to be banned from this school.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is based in a mental hospital in the 1960’s, where things such as homosexuality was illegal and considered a disease back then. It is told from a first person perspective by Chief Bromden, who is in the ward for insanity and constant delusions. Bromden tells readers of a fight led by Randle P. McMurphy who rallies patients against Nurse Ratched an oppressive and controlling nurse. Nurse Ratched constantly shames other patients so badly, toward the end of the novel a patient takes his own life. McMurphy is able to cause complete chaos in the ward, from excessing gambling to getting women and booze into the ward. Nurse Ratched tries various methods to remove McMurphy from the ward and she herself is moved from the ward part time for her actions. This event …show more content…
This statement is so much more than a theme, it's a rule of life. So many people, especially those of our age group let others change our mentality and the way we think and act. Nurse Ratched is constantly disapproving and shaming the patients during group meetings based on actions they have made in the past. The reason why patients are stuck in the hospital for so long is because they let Nurse Ratched take advantage of their mistakes to plant the idea that they will never be normal to society. Billy Bibbit kills himself once Nurse Ratched finds out he was sleeping with Candy and threatens to tell his mother. Bibbit slits his own throat so his mother does not find out he was sleeping with a
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is based in a mental hospital in the 1960’s, where things such as homosexuality was illegal and considered a disease back then. It is told from a first person perspective by Chief Bromden, who is in the ward for insanity and constant delusions. Bromden tells readers of a fight led by Randle P. McMurphy who rallies patients against Nurse Ratched an oppressive and controlling nurse. Nurse Ratched constantly shames other patients so badly, toward the end of the novel a patient takes his own life. McMurphy is able to cause complete chaos in the ward, from excessing gambling to getting women and booze into the ward. Nurse Ratched tries various methods to remove McMurphy from the ward and she herself is moved from the ward part time for her actions. This event …show more content…
This statement is so much more than a theme, it's a rule of life. So many people, especially those of our age group let others change our mentality and the way we think and act. Nurse Ratched is constantly disapproving and shaming the patients during group meetings based on actions they have made in the past. The reason why patients are stuck in the hospital for so long is because they let Nurse Ratched take advantage of their mistakes to plant the idea that they will never be normal to society. Billy Bibbit kills himself once Nurse Ratched finds out he was sleeping with Candy and threatens to tell his mother. Bibbit slits his own throat so his mother does not find out he was sleeping with a