One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

mental institutions were continuously filled with new patients, predominantly returning home from war in Europe and Asia. These mental institutions aimed to help sick or psychologically damaged people to acclimate to society’s ways. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the author highlights the differences between Randall McMurphy and Nurse Ratched while drawing connections between them. Randall and Nurse Ratched are two sides of the same coin. They are a part of the same coin, with…

There is a great disparity amongst the students in the dull background, who are emotionally detached from the person being operated on, and the lady on the bottom left corner of the painting, who shows enormous distress and attachment to the patient. The students in the dull background look at their notes, or at the operation happening in the center of the painting. Most lean casually to the side or rest their head on a hand. A prominent example of this is the student in the upper left whose…

Billy’s ordinary world was cluttered with fear which stemmed from an unhealthy childhood. Abraham Maslow, one of the founding fathers of humanistic psychology in the1940’s, created the Hierarchy of Needs. “The lower the needs in the hierarchy, the more fundamental they are...” (Tay, Diener, changingminds). Maslow created a pyramid to model the five most important human needs, “essential for evolutionary survival” (Tay, Diener). Billy’s mother and Nurse Ratched were oppressive and unbalanced…

There is someone in everyone's life who has impacted their life greatly and has maybe even changed them. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, McMurphy impacts the patients in the ward. McMurphy stands out with his personality and has given the other patients the courage to be non-conformists. McMurphy arrived at the mental hospital due to a court order from an incident that happened at a work farm. The moment McMurphy stepped foot in the ward, all of the other patients…

Irving Wallace states, “To be one 's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity". There are those who have difficulty conforming to society, as these people have trouble adapting to this constant change. Some, who are afraid to express themselves, because of what other may think, cage their true self. As a result, they become outcasts of society. New generations come into this world, adapting and finding their place in society.…

away with more than Nurse Ratched because she is in a higher position, but she delights in their cruelty. Bromden is the only one who sees that Nurse Ratched enjoys the abuse of her men: 'So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl.' She does not bother to hide her true nature from Bromden, since she thinks that he can tell no one. In contrast, most of the men in the novel are portrayed as weak and emasculated. This is most explicit in the way the men…

Randle Patrick McMurphy is the primary reason Charles Cheswick killed himself. Once McMurphy proved to the patients he was the one most suitable to take Nurse Ratched down, Cheswick followed suit and begins to help McMurphy with his cause. Cheswick, a man of bold words but no action, always believed he could one day take a stand against Nurse Ratched, and finally his moment has come. Cheswick was the first of the patients that stood up with McMurphy but when McMurphy does not support him,…

automatically the scenes ambience changes from one of a calm, smooth wave to one of a dark, and thunderous thunderstorm. McMurphy makes the audience cringe in their seats due to the treacherous acts he commits and yet is still considered a hero in the eyes of the audience. The third person direction is a major contribution as to why a man like McMurphy could ever be idolized in the way he is. The direction makes it seem that everything McMurphy does is one-hundred percent correct, and that what…

of children and their parents behind him walking into the courtroom. All of the kids walk in and turn around and put red rubber ball on over their noses. At the beginning of the movie Patch walks into the room where the children where in the hospital and did everything he could to get them to all laugh. One of the things that he did has put a red rubber ball over his nose. It stuck out to me because when Patch needed support the kids came to him in his time of need and got him to laugh just like…

based on the book of neurologist Oliver Sacks, it is based on the real life story of the author Dr. Sacks he is the one who initiate to change the names of the characters, even his name so they come up with Dr. Sayer the movie is directed by Penny Marshall, it gives the people a great story about a Doctor named Malcolm Sayer played by the late actor Robin Williams he is working in Bronx, one of the hospital in New York. He met the patient named Leonard Lowe who is suffering from the 1920’s…