In his novel, Ken Kesey chronicles Randle’s efforts to persuade the ward into turning against its seemingly impervious tyrant by exposing Nurse Ratched in numerous vulnerable positions as a result of his various pranks and schemes. The nurse is not one to easily relinquish her power and often bides her time before retorting with an impregnable force, from which Randle always miraculously recovers with another devious plot to elongate the war. The battles are categorized as either small ones, those with fleeting influence, or ones utilizing elaborate mind games paralleling nuclear weaponry. Circumstances like these are not meant to last forever and a final sacrifice on Randle McMurphy’s part finally eradicated the nurse of her previously unassailable
