Asylums are supposed to stabilize the insane, but what if they did the exact opposite? In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest not only is the sanity of the patients questioned but the staff’s too. The methods of the institution are questionable ethically and morally. Giving the patients unknown pills and taking away their masculinity is very dubious. The ways of the institute is soon questioned because of the arrival of Randle McMurphy. Due to the control, different perspectives, and issues inside the asylum the major conflict of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a sane individual verses an insane institution.
Historically the lines of sanity and insanity are often blurred. According to Natalie Pye (n.d) ,“Madmen are people who did not seem to fit into any other category in society, and they forfeited their respectable status by their erratic, embarrassing, or simply unexplainable behavior and the mere fact of their becoming a spectacle” (pg 3). Society is known to ostracize those who are clinically mad or have a mental illness as if they are diseased. It is because of this type of view that has that numerous people are in the asylum for the simplest thing and completely unaware that they are not insane. However, McMurphy is an expectation and provides that he is …show more content…
An alpha female is in charge with people always following what they say, taking cues from her. When the an alpha female leaves it is like a vacuum is sucking out all the air in the room, and it is speculated that everyone is born to either follow or be as strong as an alpha female (Edwards, n.d, pg 1). In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest there are numerous incidences that Ratched has proceeded to go out of her way to regain control. Kesey proceeds Bromden’s perspective of Ratched to be hard and mean repetitively. Ratched even strikes fear into the institute’s staff. The doctor Dr. Spivey even trembles under her
Historically the lines of sanity and insanity are often blurred. According to Natalie Pye (n.d) ,“Madmen are people who did not seem to fit into any other category in society, and they forfeited their respectable status by their erratic, embarrassing, or simply unexplainable behavior and the mere fact of their becoming a spectacle” (pg 3). Society is known to ostracize those who are clinically mad or have a mental illness as if they are diseased. It is because of this type of view that has that numerous people are in the asylum for the simplest thing and completely unaware that they are not insane. However, McMurphy is an expectation and provides that he is …show more content…
An alpha female is in charge with people always following what they say, taking cues from her. When the an alpha female leaves it is like a vacuum is sucking out all the air in the room, and it is speculated that everyone is born to either follow or be as strong as an alpha female (Edwards, n.d, pg 1). In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest there are numerous incidences that Ratched has proceeded to go out of her way to regain control. Kesey proceeds Bromden’s perspective of Ratched to be hard and mean repetitively. Ratched even strikes fear into the institute’s staff. The doctor Dr. Spivey even trembles under her