Women In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Sometimes, we allow media, society, and the people around us to control us. The media has become very influential to our society and it is affecting us each and every day more than we know. It is quite similar to the way that the Nurse on the ward controls the men in the novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She taught the men to be afraid of her and to know that she controls everything so they should never question her. The Nurse also has complete control over how long Randle McMurphy, one of the men on the ward, has to stay there. For McMurphy to be free, he needs the permission of the Nurse. Ken Kesey’s, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, shows how mental institutions can be corrupt or unjust when it comes to dealing with mental illness.
Nurse Ratched runs the ward like a totalitarian society. A totalitarian society is when an individual runs the society and there is little to no freedom for the people. The ward makes the men feel imprisoned because of the way that they are treated. Nurse Ratched is not sympathetic and has complete control over the ward. A control panel is used to control everything in the ward, such as the lights, television, music, and etcetera. When Nurse Ratched uses the control panel, it makes her feel powerful and causes the men in the ward to feel trapped and powerless. Feeling trapped and powerless can lead to negative thoughts and can cause an individual to possibly go insane.
At the end of the novel, when Chief Bromden destroys the control panel it ends the Nurse’s control and without her control, Bromden is now free. The control panel represents freedom and the things that you have to do to get freedom. The control panel is, in a way, similar to that of how in outside society the media is able to c...

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...ay to feel comfortable with the men. He enjoys winning money, but gambling represents how the men on the ward are given the opportunity to actually own something and make their own choices to decide what they are going to spend their money on. It is also kind of a symbol of the “game” between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy and their fight against each other for control.
Many things in the novel symbolize invisibility. Throughout the novel, Bromden tries to be invisible. He pretends that he does not know what is going on because he thinks it will make him go unnoticed. Bromden tries to keep his mind and his body hidden from the people around him throughout the novel. Nobody really knows why he would feel more comfortable with being unnoticed. He might have wanted to feel invisible to take away the pain he felt or so that he would not be judged by the people around him.

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