The needs of the patients in any institution are put behind the needs of those in power, which makes the job of those in power easier. This sentence definitely applies to the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In this film, there are many circumstances where the needs of the patients are put second and they are made to feel different. Also the institutions routine is run in the same way for every patient and if one of them doesn’t follow this routine than the answer is shock therapy. Towards the end of the film, when Billy was found in a bed with a lady, Nurse Ratched manipulated him which led to him taking his own life.
All of the patients in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest aren’t treated correctly and all treated as equal. An example of this is medication time. At medication time, the patients queue up in a line and one by one receive the same medication. The needs of the patients in the institution are never met and the people in the institution are made to feel like they belong in there. When McMurphy came he realised this, and he tried to prove to the patients that they were normal, and he tells them: “What do you think you are, …show more content…
After Billy was found in a bed with a girl, he lost his stutter and it seemed like he was standing up to Nurse Ratched. But when she told him she would tell his mother, his stutter was back. This shows that Nurse Ratched and the other staff at the institution were manipulative and had ultimate power. With the thought of Nurse Ratched telling his mother, Billy Bibbit decided to commit suicide. If Nurse Ratched had cared about Billy then Billy would never have killed himself, and all of the drama that unfolded afterwards would never have happened. The fact that Billy Bibbit committed suicide clearly shows this institution is illogical and isn’t run in the way it should be, which is to look after the patients
All of the patients in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest aren’t treated correctly and all treated as equal. An example of this is medication time. At medication time, the patients queue up in a line and one by one receive the same medication. The needs of the patients in the institution are never met and the people in the institution are made to feel like they belong in there. When McMurphy came he realised this, and he tried to prove to the patients that they were normal, and he tells them: “What do you think you are, …show more content…
After Billy was found in a bed with a girl, he lost his stutter and it seemed like he was standing up to Nurse Ratched. But when she told him she would tell his mother, his stutter was back. This shows that Nurse Ratched and the other staff at the institution were manipulative and had ultimate power. With the thought of Nurse Ratched telling his mother, Billy Bibbit decided to commit suicide. If Nurse Ratched had cared about Billy then Billy would never have killed himself, and all of the drama that unfolded afterwards would never have happened. The fact that Billy Bibbit committed suicide clearly shows this institution is illogical and isn’t run in the way it should be, which is to look after the patients