Randle McMurphy

not get arrested. The Chief perceives the capability of the Combine to cut down and shape a man into what it wishes him to be; he even informs McMurphy regarding its reality and power. He cautions McMurphy that the Combine can't let a man as large and as effective as McMurphy exists unless he is on society's severe side. The Chief realizes that if McMurphy is against the Combine, it will attempt to chop him down to size. Chief Bromden trusts that the Combine begins to deal with individuals…

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…

Nurse Ratchet's control and into a pasture where they can roam free in lush, green pastures. Where they will be safe and not judged for being different. McMurphy, from Ken Kessey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is the shepherd these men need. He wants to free them from Nurse Ratchet and give them their free roam of the land. When McMurphy first arrived at the ward the men knew he was different. One of the very first things he does is defy the current ‘shepherd’ (Nurse Rachet) by shouting…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey was published in 1962. Through the narration of a native Indian suffering from paranoia and hallucinations, it follows the lives of men in a 'fictional' mental hospital. Kesey was an anti-authoritarian participating in experimental LSD trials and working in a psychiatric ward. These experiences impacted his writing as he explored societal conventions and freedom. His work argues that repression maintains power and eliminates individuality. This is…

Throughout the novel, Kesey incorporates metaphors and further characterizes one of the main characters, McMurphy, to critique the authority of the doctors that work with the patients in the hospital. To the other patients in the ward, McMurphy preaches to them about the importance of sticking up for themselves against the other nurses, doctors, and even patients. The author uses a rabbit metaphor to illustrate the difference between the patients and the doctors. “All of us in here are rabbits”…

1962 In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the author writes a story about patients of a medical institution in the 1960s and the journey of the lives of a group of men who are considered to be crazy. In part I of the novel, McMurphy has a discussion with the patients of the institution and tries to convince them that they have to stand up to Nurse Ratched because she manipulates them. Afterwords, Dale Harding replies that they have to accept that they are vulnerable…

wild abandon and rebellion of the criminal, McMurphy, to illustrate the opposing forces of control and freedom, along with demonstrating the controlling nature of society. Kesey uses the introduction of McMurphy and the depiction of the ward along with the change after McMurphy’s introduction to illustrate the emasculating effect of control. The introduction of McMurphy is a catalyst to break the complete control and order of the ward. When McMurphy arrives on the extremely orderly and…

Patrick McMurphy, a rough and tumbling redheaded gambler, conman, and backroom boxer. McMurphy constantly challenges the authority of Nurse Ratched and the ward, and defiantly rallies the other men to oppose her authority. Exhausted from McMurphy’s behaviour, Nurse Ratched plays…

The way something makes one feel can greatly change how one perceives it. However, this feeling can change with different types of media. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, he displayed the mood of the ward to be very dynamic because the mood kept changing. The mood is important to the reader’s understanding because it helps the reader feel like they are in the situation of the characters in the story. The movie version of the same book was directed by Milos Forman, who…

Tracy Letts once said, “when books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.” Award winning books are often made into movies to expand the viewers of the books. Many times parts are added, taken out, or deleted changing the perspective of the movie and sometimes the plot. Harper Lee’s, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11th, 1960 and turned into a film that was released in 1962. On of the…