One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a movie filmed in 1975 based on Ken Kesey’s same named book. The movie is about the conflict between the two main characters Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is a criminal who is guilty of raping a fifteen year old girl and pretends to be insane so that he can escape from his punishment. In the asylum he meets people who are going to change his life and also he is going to change their lives. The movie has lots of hidden meanings. They are about gender and racism. In the movie there are two kinds of women. First one is movie’s villain Mrs. Ratched, she is chief nurse in the asylum and depicted as an oppressive figure. “For the dramatic requirements of the story, Nurse Ratched had to be very nearly an incarnation of evil, unthinking or otherwise” (Boardman 59). In the movie Mrs. Ratched has cold eyes, she always has straight face even if there is a chaos in the group. She asks patients what they think about other patient’s problem and this will lead a fight so she creates an uproar by doing it. She is depicted as a cruel figure. Billy Bibbit fears of his own mother and he is stutterer but he is not stuttering when he was with Candy but Mrs. Ratched keeps telling that she is going to tell his mother about what happened and she causes death of Billy. On the other hand Candy, our second kind …show more content…
If a woman is powerful or doing her job, she will be a villain but if she is submissive even if she is stupid, she will become an angel. Black people were working in low paid simple jobs, society wanted them not the use their brains but their muscles. Native Americans were seen as someone who follows white men and white men are their teachers and saviours. Even if the movie is about freedom, it shows us that even if you escape from your prison society always categorise you as bad women, black, native and