Final Essay
In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest the Final Party and end of the novel is a mention to the Last Supper and the Passion that happened in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. There is an un-canning association between the characters in the book and in the book of scriptures. In spite of the fact that the two stories are interconnected they have marginally distinctive endings and particular subtle elements. McMurphy and Chief toward the end of the novel experience a few deterrents that unite allegorically. McMurphy additionally lectured a gospel all through the book simply like Jesus in the book of scriptures.
The last party in Cuckoos contrasts with the Last Supper in the book of scriptures from various perspectives however particularly
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She ascertains what she would do alongside cut McMurphy down simply like Satan in the book of scriptures. Enormous Nurse is scheming and her outside appearance diverges from her inward evilness. On the outside she doesn't look mean and has imperfections quite recently like other people, for example, her womanly bosoms and lipstick. To patients she seems pleasant however that is a mask so she can continue on ahead without being investigated. In the book of scriptures Satan is viewed as tricky and can tackle pictures that will fulfill his prey which is exactly what Nurse Ratchet tries to …show more content…
Mc Murphy gets tired of Big Nurse's amusements and rushes to her, stifling her and tearing her shirt. McMurphy then gets secured and detracted from the ward for a little time. When he returns he doesn't stroll in the ward, he is come in on one of the gurneys and put by the Vegetables. He had an operation that made him lobotomy and a vegetable in this manner not by any stretch of the imagination responsive any longer. It is bad to the point that Sefelt and Martini deny that it’s McMurphy. For quite a long time they condemned the "crummy" looking McMurphy. Patients went by to check whether that was genuinely McMurphy on the grounds that the swelling continued going down.
The impact of seeing McMurphy like that incited Chief to make a move. Boss said that McMurphy won't be there twenty to thirty years so that Big Nurse can utilize him as a case of what not to do. So he held up until everybody was rest and put the cushion on McMurphy face to choke out him. At that point after a discussion and direction from Scanlon he chooses to leave the ward by tossing the control board through the window. This is truly huge in light of the fact that McMurphy is the person who taught him and issued him the strength to try and endeavor then succeed in lifting the control
While McMurphy is being punished, the rest of the men slowly start to leave the ward. Laughing at Miss Ratched’s shocked face, the men had their wives come pick them up, or they just up and checked out one day. The Big Nurse, using what little power she had left, issued a lobotomy to McMurphy. With McMurphy unable to laugh anymore and eyes that used to be full of life and energy now drained, Bromden does his hero a last favor- he suffocates him and escapes the ward that same night. McMurphy’s own energy depleted as he distributed it to all the patients. He tried his hardest not to show it, and he fought until the very end to keep from showing his exhaustion, but the fact of the matter was that the patients took his energy, unbeknownst to them, and bettered themselves, allowing them to be free of the combine and escape Miss Ratched’s control.
The novel is narrated by the main character, Chief Bromden, who reveals the two faces of Nurse Ratched, in the opening pages of the novel. He continues sweeping the floor while the nurse assaults three black aides for gossiping in the hallway. Chief chooses to describe the nurse abstractly: “her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger...by the time the patients get there...all they see is the head nurse, smiling and calm and cold as usual” (5). Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with precision and harsh discipline. When Randle McMurphy arrives to escape time in jail, he immediately sizes the Big Nurse up as manipulative, controlling, and power-hungry. The portrayal that he expresses to the patient's leaves a lasting impact on them: “The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and all go to peckin’ at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers” (57). McMurphy finds it appalling that the patients are too blindsided to see Nurse Ratched’s conniving scheme, which is to take charge of the patients’ lives. The only person who understands Nurse Ratched’s game is McMurphy, and this motivates him to rebel against the
He would always sneak in wine, gamble with them, and would have them play along on all his jokes. His need for freedom was refreshing to everyone else, that what kept them going. At points when he gave up from being a rebel, other patients gave up. McMurphy wins this war between him and Ratched because he helps other patients continue to be excited and helps them get out of there. McMurphy influences patients to stand up for themselves and not take orders from Ratched. Harding listened to McMurphy and did exactly that. He started to call her out on things and make fun of her, and she couldn't respond. It was clear that Nurse Ratched wasn't the same person and because of what McMurphy did, she couldn't get back in control. Ken Kesey writes, “She tried to get her ward back into shape, but it was difficult with McMurphy’s presence still tromping up and down the halls and laughing out loud in the meetings… she couldn't rule with her old power anymore… She was losing her patients one after the other” ( 320-321). McMurphy has always taught them to follow their own rules and not obey Ratched. In particular, he influenced Chief, a quiet patient that watches his surrounding carefully. After teaching Chief what it's like to follow your own rules, Chief begins to follow McMurphy’s role. After the incident of stripping Ratched’s identity, he learns that McMurphy was a hero to him and although he doesn’t physically help him out, McMurphy has taught Chief how to play this game. Chief tries to be like McMurphy by taking over. DOing so he tries on his cap, trying to be the new McMurphy. Ken Kesey writes, “I reached into McMurphy’s nightstand and got his cap and tried it on. It was too small” (323). Chief realized that no one could take over McMurphy's role, but that Chief would have to be in control over himself to make a statement. Chief does exactly that, he runs for it, making him happier than he has ever
Nurse Ratched is portrayed as the authority figure in the hospital. The patients see no choice but to follow her regulations that she had laid down for them. Nurse Ratched's appearance is strong and cold. She has womanly features, but hides them “Her Face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive… A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing putting those big, womanly breasts on what would have otherwise been a prefect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it.” (11) She kept control over the ward without weakness, until McMurphy came. When McMurphy is introduced into the novel he is laughing a lot, and talking with the patients in the ward, he does not seem intimidated by Miss Ratched. McMurphy constantly challenges the control of Nurse Ratched, while she tries to show she remains in control, He succeeds in some ways and lo...
During the first therapy meeting that McMurphy attends, Nurse Ratched begins by examining Harding's difficulties with his wife. McMurphy tells that he was arrested for statutory rape, although he thought that the girl was of legal age, and Dr. Spivey, the main doctor for the ward, questions whether McMurphy is feigning insanity to get out of doing hard labor at the work farm. After the meeting, McMurphy confronts Harding on the way that the meetings are run. He compares it to a 'pecking-party' in which each of the patients turn on each other. Harding pretends to defend Nurse Ratched, but then admits that all of the patients and even Dr. Spivey are afraid of Nurse Ratched. He tells McMurphy that the patients are rabbits who cannot adjust to their rabbithood and need Nurse Ratched to show them their place. McMurphy then bets him that he can get Nurse Ratched to crack within a week.
Ruckly, a patient on the ward, was “being a holy nuisance all over the place,” which caused the doctors to operate on him-- the operation didn’t go according to plan. This is perfect foreshadowing of how Nurse Ratched plans to use McMurphy in the end. McMurphy loses it, and that gives Big Nurse the opportunity to play the last card: a lobotomy. She plans to use McMurphy as an example, to set fear into the other patients, just like Ruckly. Her plan is thwarted by Chief Bromden, and her plan is not followed through. Fear, throughout the novel, was a huge factor in Nurse Ratched’s
They both realize that in order to get their own way, they must gain control over their rival and the ward. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched have different methods of attaining and using what control they have. They have different motives for seeking control over others. They also have different perceptions of the amount of control they possess. Throughout the novel, these two characters engulf themselves in an epic struggle for the most control.
Nurse Ratched uses her voice throughout the novel to intimidate the patients. She is the antagonist of the novel. The patients obsequiously follow Ratched’s command, until McMurphy comes along. They all fear that she will send them for shock therapy if they don’t obey her. Nurse Ratched is the most daunting persona of the novel, due in large part to the use of her voice.
Individuals often mistake their reality for the reality of the world. An extreme case of this is R.P. McMurphy in Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy is a “redhead with long red sideburns, and a tangle of curls,” the color of his hair coinciding with his spitfire personality (Kesey 11). He is brought to a mental ward at the start of the novel and acts as the catalyst for all the events to follow in his time spent there. He takes it upon himself to liberate the weak men of the ward from their oppression, and aid them in the regaining of their manhood. On this journey, two patients he is helping end up committing suicide: Cheswick near the beginning, and Billy Bibbit toward the end. McMurphy plays a role in both events,
Kappel, Lawrence. Readings on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Print.
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey uses a different technique of storytelling then all the other books we have examined in this class. Kesey makes it hard to decipher who the main character is. The main character is usually the one the reader knows all about and sympathizes for. It is hard to choose whether Chief Bromden the narrator or Randle Mcmurphy plays a bigger lead. I suppose Mcmurphy is the protagonist and Bromden is the antagonist, however, the only thing that really gives that away is the end when Bromden kills MCmurphy. Up until then Mcmurphy seems to be the one playing the actions, because he is the only brave one to stand up against Mix Ratched. Bromden doesn’t possess the characteristics of a main character. Instead of setting out to be heroic he tries to be invisible. He does, however, show his hidden intelligence which makes the reader question his sanity. Another reason the storytelling of this story is so unusual is the fact there is no hint at the ending. Usually books have a begging conflict and end. In this book that strategy is followed
Nurse Ratched was head nurse of the ward. She needed to have control over everything. All of the patients feared Nurse Ratched, or as they sometimes call her, “Big Nurse.” That is everyone feared her until McMurphy. Because he refused to listen to Nurse Ratched, the “ruler” of the ward, it showed that there will be dismay between the two throughout the story.
In the book One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey the use of Christ imagery is overall effective. One of the first images was the fishing trip planned by McMurphy because only twelve people went and Jesus took twelve disciples with him on a fishing trip. Billy Bibbits turning on McMurphy near the end by admitting that he was involved in McMurphys plan was like Judas admitting he participated with Jesus. Towards the end of the story McMurphy is a martyr just like Jesus because the patients aren’t free until he dies. Those are a few examples of how Kesey uses Christ imagery in his book.
The Nurse is unhappy with McMurphy because he has disrupted the order that she had spent so long creating. “She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tagged her with those outsized badges of femininity”(159). Since McMurphy has come to the ward, he has done nothing but cause trouble. He has continued to point out the fact that he can gain power over the Big Nurse because she is a woman and this quote shows how she tries to hide it because it is a weakness that she does not want McMurphy is taking advantage of. McMurphy believes that the only way to control women is through sex and when talking about this he says: “and I’ve never seen a women I thought was more man than me, I don’t care whether I can get it up for her or not”(74). He is referencing the idea of controlling women through sex and how the nurse is so unappealing as a woman that he can’t get an erection while looking at her. This helps to show how the nurse hides her femininity from the men on the ward because it is seen as a weakness and a way for the men to hold some power over her. Nurse Ratched is the head of the ward and her being female is seen as a weakness so she does the best that she can to hide it despite what McMurphy and all of the other men
If the patients saw that Ms. Ratched could get angry, and that she was hiding her personality, they would realize that they are not rabbits after all, and that she is not a “good strong wolf”, as they previously believed. When patient R.P McMurphy, the hospital patient that tries to remove all of Ms. Ratched’s power, arrives on the hospital ward, he makes no effort to hide his personality, and the patients begin to recognize how Ms. Ratched hides her personality, in the novel, Chief Bromden says, “He stands looking at us, back in his boots, and he laughs and laughs. In the novel, Ms. Ratched just removed the tub room, which was used as a game room, from the patients, this angered McMurphy, so he decided to do something subtle to get revenge on Ms. Ratched. In the novel, it says, “The Big Nurse’s eyes swelled out as he got close. . .