In every perception of society there is something off. Villainous and corrupt people plague every society. A villain isn 't necessarily someone who hurts you directly, but someone who might use various means to harm you be it consciously or not. They could be a close friend or an even closer relative. Villainous acts take place many times thought the novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest" by Ken Kessy. The one true villain in this story is the head of the ward, Nurse Ratched. She can be described as a nursing figure whose job is to treat her patients but instead tortures and oppresses them. She uses fear to oppress and manipulate the patients, she abuses the power she has in cruel ways, and she gives a false perception of herself as a caring
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Nurse Ratched tries to hide her true colours by removing her femininity. This is shown by her wrapping her large breasts, which are a sign of femininity. At the start of the novel, she shows her true colours when she surrounds the black boys ready to punish them. "Just then, the patients walk in and Chief Bromden describes her sudden change in attitude with, "Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive baby doll, skin like flesh-colored enamel, blend of white and cream and baby-blue eyes, small nose, pink little nostrils." (Kessey, 6). This shows how she is constantly hiding her true monstrous nature from the patients. Also, many of the patients believe in her because of the false image of herself that she plants into their minds. An example is the baths she gives. She claims that they are to clean the patients, when in reality she is humiliating them. This shows how the patients believe that she actually wants to help them and for them to get better, while she couldn 't care less. Another way that she hides her true colours is by pretending to help the patients by indirectly scaring the patients. This can be seen when she puts up the poster about bad weather and men getting lost at sea. The patients think she is warning them while she is actually scaring them, to try to stop them from doing what they want. She uses the false perception that she has created to gain trust and misuse
Nurse Ratched tries to hide her true colours by removing her femininity. This is shown by her wrapping her large breasts, which are a sign of femininity. At the start of the novel, she shows her true colours when she surrounds the black boys ready to punish them. "Just then, the patients walk in and Chief Bromden describes her sudden change in attitude with, "Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive baby doll, skin like flesh-colored enamel, blend of white and cream and baby-blue eyes, small nose, pink little nostrils." (Kessey, 6). This shows how she is constantly hiding her true monstrous nature from the patients. Also, many of the patients believe in her because of the false image of herself that she plants into their minds. An example is the baths she gives. She claims that they are to clean the patients, when in reality she is humiliating them. This shows how the patients believe that she actually wants to help them and for them to get better, while she couldn 't care less. Another way that she hides her true colours is by pretending to help the patients by indirectly scaring the patients. This can be seen when she puts up the poster about bad weather and men getting lost at sea. The patients think she is warning them while she is actually scaring them, to try to stop them from doing what they want. She uses the false perception that she has created to gain trust and misuse