Control Leads to Destruction in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients
and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what
goes on in this institute. The main points in this book deal with control,
be it the character of McMurphy who is unable to handle control, or Nurse
Ratched the head nurse on the ward whose job requires her to be in control.
The world of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is dark; it is a place where
control leads to destruction, but the novel shows through the character of
The Chief that there is still hope if the people who are being controlled
have the power to resist.
Nurse Ratched is a mean woman whose job revolves around control.
She depends on people who are less fortunate than her to make a living.
Her need to control others is an unfortunate trait that she has because it
makes people unable to think for themselves and it also leads to
destruction. One example of this is when Nurse Ratched caught one of the
patients (Billy Bibbit) with a woman. The nurse feeling the need to
control Billy threatened to tell his mother. Billy begged Nurse Ratched
not to tell her but when his requests were refused Billy slashed his neck
with a broken bottle and killed himself. Billy's life was destroyed
because of Nurse Ratched's need to control others.
Another place that we see the dark world is when we examine the
relationship between Nurse Ratched and R.P. McMurphy. McMurphy is a happy
and rebellious man. He is not used to being controlled, so when he gets
into the institution he refuses to be controlled by Nurse Ratche...
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at". At the end of the novel when McMurphy is given a lobotomy, Chief
realizes that he is not so safe. Chief escapes from the institution and
runs away to Canada. Chief is a figure of hope in the novel he shows us
that there is still a way out for those who are being controlled.
The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest shows us darkness, and it
shows us a world where control leads to destruction. It shows us lives
destroyed, people who are so obsessed with control that they do not think
of others even if their job requires them to do so. However, it shows us
hope. Hope for those who are being controlled, hope for those who just
can't take the harsh strict rules that are imposed upon them. The world of
One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest is like a dark grey cloud, a dark grey cloud
with a silver lining.
Contrast. Tone. Metaphors. These literary elements are all used in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s in relation to a larger theme in the novel – confidence. In the book, a man named McMurphy is put into a mental ward run by Nurse Ratched, who has complete power and control over the men. They all fear her and submit to her due to fear, suppressing their confidence and manhood. When McMurphy came, he was like a spark that ignites a roaring fire in the men; they gain back the confidence that they lost and become free. In one passage, McMurphy takes the men on a fishing trip where he helps them stray away from the Nurse’s power and learn to believe in themselves. Throughout the passage, the use of contrast, positive tone, and metaphors of
Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest, a novel. New York: Viking Press, 1962. Print.
In my opinion the main theme of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is conformity. The patients at this mental institution, or at least the one in the Big Nurse’s ward, find themselves on a rough situation where not following standards costs them many privileges being taken away. The standards that the Combine sets are what makes the patients so afraid of a change and simply conform hopelessly to what they have since anything out of the ordinary would get them in trouble. Such conformity is what Mc Murphy can not stand and makes him bring life back to the ward by fighting Miss Ratched and creating a new environment for the patients. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest represents a rebellion against the conformity implied in today’s society.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden, also known as Chief Broom, a catatonic half-Indian man whom everybody thinks is deaf and dumb. He often suffers from hallucinations in which he feels that the room is filled with fog. The institution is dominated by Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse), a cold, precise woman with calculated gestures and a calm, mechanical manner. When the story begins, a new patient, Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives at the ward. He is a self-professed 'gambling fool' who has just come from a work farm at Pendleton. He introduces himself to the other men on the ward, including Dale Harding, the president of the patient's council, and Billy Bibbit, a thirty-year old man who stutters and appears very young. Nurse Ratched immediately pegs McMurphy as a manipulator.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey presents a situation which is a small scale and exaggerated model of modern society and its suppressive qualities. The story deals with the inmates of a psychiatric ward who are all under the control of Nurse Ratched, ‘Big Nurse’, whose name itself signifies the oppressive nature of her authority. She rules with an iron fist so that the ward can function smoothly in order to achieve the rehabilitation of patients with a variety of mental illnesses. Big Nurse is presented to the reader through the eyes of the Chief, the story’s narrator, and much of her control is represented through the Chief’s hallucinations. One of these most recurring elements is the fog, a metaphorical haze keeping the patients befuddled and controlled “The fog: then time doesn’t mean anything. It’s lost in the fog, like everyone else” (Kesey 69). Another element of her control is the wires, though the Chief only brings this u...
Control in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Ken Kesey?s masterpiece novel One Flew over the Cuckoo?s Nest uses many themes, symbols, and imagery to illustrate the reality of the lives of a group of mental patients. The element of control is a central, arguably the largest, and the most important theme in the novel. The element of control revolves around the two main characters of the novel, Randle P. McMurphy, and Nurse Ratched. These two characters are the exact antithesis of each other, and they both seek to get their own way.
Kappel, Lawrence. Readings on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Print.
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Goodfriend, Wind. "Mental Hospitals in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”." "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Psychology Today, 22 May 2012. Web. 01 May 2014.
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