Randle McMurphy

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a movie set in the late sixties resembling the state and condition of mental hospitals. The specific mental hospital portrayed in this movie was rather disturbing. The hospital had a horrible ambiance that one would not be comfortable in, consisting of jail-like cells and bars on all of the windows. The methods used to treat the patients in the hospital were not successful at all, only worsening the patients’ conditions. Nurse Ratchet insisting on maintaining a…

The Nurse’s rule over the men had changed them so much they were too afraid to speak up against the Nurse or even laugh at McMurphy’s jokes. McMurphy was upset at what the Nurse had done to them. McMurphy tried so greatly to get them to regain this confidence that they had lost. He said to one of his fellow patients, ”Don’t you see you have to do something to show you still got some guts? Don’t you see you can’t let her…

and concord. One repetitious morning, a larger-than-life man, Randle McMurphy enters the institution, altering the monotony forever. This self-confessed ‘Bull Goose Looney’ is an outlaw who refuses to conform. This rebellious anti-authoritarian makes his mission to disobey Ratched’s dominion and and liberate…

pursue from their reality inside their ward. Author Ken Kesey uses symbolism to portray psychiatric patient Randle McMurphy’s escape from misery. Religious imagery, coupled with foggy weather and dark humor, lay a groundwork for a driving story element: conflict. In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, McMurphy is successfully perceived as a heroic Christ figure. In the beginning of the novel McMurphy is baptized with a shower…

1950s and early 1960s. Throughout the story, the ward is viewed as a small world of its own regulations, rules, and instruction controlled by Nurse Ratched. However, before the entry of the protagonist Randle P. McMurphy everything in the ward was organized and controlled in Nurse Ratched hands. As McMurphy enters the ward he becomes a warrior and rebel in the ward who has a desire to make Nurse Ratched lose her control and give freedom to the patient’s.…

nurse, Nurse Ratched, hold control over her patients through immoral means. A new patient, Randle McMurphy, doesn’t like the ideals of the ward and fights back. Manipulation is very prevalent theme within One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest seen in most of these characters, manipulating or being manipulated. Nurse Ratched is shown in the novel manipulating the patient through her log book and insinuating, while McMurphy combats this with his gambling and manipulating the ward staff. In the novel One…

Asch, all of whom are well known social psychologists and writers, have studied the effects of this form of disobedience and how it benefits those people. In the film, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest , we see this act of disobedience portrayed by McMurphy, from outside of the ward, when he rises up against the authority figure (Nurse Ratched) to ultimately better the patients of the ward.…

The movie centers around the new arrival, Randle Patrick McMurphy, who is a criminal transferred from prison to a mental institution to be evaluated to determine if he is truly insane. When he is first asked by the administrator why he is thought to be insane, McMurphy describes himself with characteristics that seem to fit the description of a sociopath. Shortly following his arrival it is apparent that he has disregard for rules, order and structure. Given this behavior he soon finds an…

Bromden, often referred to as Chief Broom, is a quiet, yet peculiar character in the novel. He narrates the entire story from an observer’s point of view while pretending to be deaf and dumb. Bromden relates the events leading to the demise of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the main protagonist in the book. However, his narration makes for major drawbacks and issues when telling the story as the narrator, a position in which other characters would have fit much better. Chief Bromden just is not fit…

institution. In the film, a man named Randle McMurphy is a prisoner trying to get out of the hard labor that he must do at a prison farm. He was incarcerated for statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl. McMurphy personifies that he is mentally ill, and therefore should be spending his punishment in a mental institution, not prison (Douglas and Forman, 1975). His plan works, and they admit him to an Oregon mental institution. Once he is in the mental institution, McMurphy meets Nurse Ratched, the…