Randle McMurphy

Nurse Ratched proves her authority by publicly emasculating Harding and Billy Bibbit by using their private information against them during group therapy sessions and belittling them in front of the other patients. Nurse Ratched is aware of the fact that she controls the power during the group “therapy” sessions, and she uses this time to exercise her dominance. During one of the sessions, she chooses to address Dale Harding and his troubles with his wife. He has been admitted into the hospital…

In the movie Patch Adams, directed by Tom Shadyac a young man named Hunter Adams admits himself into a psychiatric hospital. While he is there he learns that he has a passion for helping people with humor. He also gets the nickname Patch while there when talking to a patient. The movie shows that doctors should not be walking around the hospitals like they are above everyone else. That doctors should befriend the nurses and focus on patients and not the disease. When Patch Adams was in the…

about a psychiatric hospital in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s, where a new patient named McMurphy, attempts to take power away from the head nurse, who controls the ward in an authoritarian manner. In this presentation, I will be discussing important symbols in the novel, and how they affect the wider world. Before we begin, I’m going to start with an introduction of the main characters. Chief Bromden, McMurphy, and Nurse Ratched. Chief Bromden is a half-Native American man who is the…

Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest recognizes how higher authorities are controlling every aspect of their lives, and McMurphy challenges the theme of freedom, in numerous ways, within an enclosed environment. One of the first rebellions McMurphy starts is gambling around the ward with cigarettes; these helped the men feel like they had some power over their lives again. McMurphy also used sexualized playing cards; these cards represent rebellion against authority as it…

Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent an idea. These symbols can be animals, objects, people, or anything. Color is a common symbol throughout all literature. In Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest there are a lot of colors. This essay could go on forever with all of them, so here are four: white, red, green, and purple. White and red represent emotions that the Combine feels towards the men on the ward, and green and purple show the men’s emotions towards the latter. Kesey uses white…

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an entertaining film that depicts the life of criminal nearing the end of his sentence at a labor camp. Randall Patrick McMurphy (Mac), begins acting insane as he thinks that a transfer to a psychiatric institution will be his easy way out of hard work. Little to his surprise, nurse Ratchet is the head nurse who will do anything to breath the life out of the patients in the institution. Soon Mac and Ratchet are at war, and Mac begins to fight for himself and…

Carver can’t believe his luck when he is adopted by Mr. Hawking of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. With Carver under his wing, he quickly starts testing him and his detective abilities. Making him figure out how to reach the agencies secret building, which neither Carver or anybody has ever heard of. Once reaching the Pinkerton Agency he is blown away with the luxurious building filled with retro detective gadgets. Then an agent tells Carver how Mr. Hawking, “lives among the mad.”…

patients turn on McMurphy by posting their financial statements, and showing that while all the other patient’s money is dwindling, McMurphy’s money has remained the same. This draws skepticism and has the patients begin to think that McMurphy has never lost his con-man ways. Later on, McMurphy asks Bromden, in order to measure Bromden’s increased strength, if he can move the control panel, and Bromden does move it a foot and a half. Bromden refuses to accept the five dollars that McMurphy…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, McMurphy can be considered the hero of the ward, standing up to the unfair Nurse Ratched. His actions since he has arrived has influenced many patients in the ward. But in the beginning of part four, Ratched does have some reasons for her actions. The feelings or perspectives of the characters add depth to the story, and grow when exposed to influence. McMurphy's actions are causing individualism in the patients which can be bad in Ratched's eyes because then…

more fun, and exciting “the acutes [were] grinning, not so uneasy anymore, and glad that something out of the ordinary’s going on” (Kesey 23), he didn’t need to do anything crazy, even the way he smiled or talked made would suddenly change the mood. McMurphy…