The Ward
In the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey uses characters to illustrate power and disobedience as a very important theme. Multiple conflicts exist in the movie because of power between characters. Characters such as Nurse Ratched and Randall McMurphy, exhibit the use of power and disobedience because of their personalities and abilities to influence other people. Being forced to do something you do not want to do by someone who holds too much power leads to disobedience. Nurse Ratched made it hard for her patients to disobey her because her actions towards them would stop them from disobeying her. In the movie, women seem to have taken more power than men, which has a huge affect on the men on the ward. Nurse …show more content…
They can’t live in prison and wait for the one day someone saves them. Due to the patient's’ lack of thinking, they became prisoners because of their own fear that is surrounding them (the fog helps trap them more in their own minds) while Nurse Ratched emasculated them and abused her power over them because they allowed her to. McMurphy enlightened the men and opened their eyes to the reality that they refused to live in. Using his power he paved the way for the men to break away from the extreme authority they were living in, breaking free from the combine’s power. In the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, power and disobedience are very powerful themes. They can either destroy the patients or help bring them back to the real face of reality. Nurse Ratched was able to trap the men for years in their own minds let alone the ward. McMurphy comes and removes the forwardness from their eyes and paves them a way to regain their power, confidence and individual identity away from the ward. Sigmund freud believed that people follow their leaders so what we saw in the ward illustrates his idea and supports it people follow leaders without being
In the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey uses characters to illustrate power and disobedience as a very important theme. Multiple conflicts exist in the movie because of power between characters. Characters such as Nurse Ratched and Randall McMurphy, exhibit the use of power and disobedience because of their personalities and abilities to influence other people. Being forced to do something you do not want to do by someone who holds too much power leads to disobedience. Nurse Ratched made it hard for her patients to disobey her because her actions towards them would stop them from disobeying her. In the movie, women seem to have taken more power than men, which has a huge affect on the men on the ward. Nurse …show more content…
They can’t live in prison and wait for the one day someone saves them. Due to the patient's’ lack of thinking, they became prisoners because of their own fear that is surrounding them (the fog helps trap them more in their own minds) while Nurse Ratched emasculated them and abused her power over them because they allowed her to. McMurphy enlightened the men and opened their eyes to the reality that they refused to live in. Using his power he paved the way for the men to break away from the extreme authority they were living in, breaking free from the combine’s power. In the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, power and disobedience are very powerful themes. They can either destroy the patients or help bring them back to the real face of reality. Nurse Ratched was able to trap the men for years in their own minds let alone the ward. McMurphy comes and removes the forwardness from their eyes and paves them a way to regain their power, confidence and individual identity away from the ward. Sigmund freud believed that people follow their leaders so what we saw in the ward illustrates his idea and supports it people follow leaders without being