Analysis Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Chief Bromden is a very large man with a small sense of self. McMurphy helped Bromden to see the world that he and the patients lived in and tried to help them break free from it. By the end of the story, Bromden “saved” McMurphy from living in a world of pain and no more opportunities. McMurphy had given Bromden the courage and strength to leave the institution. *insert more evidence* Using Bromden’s point of view, the reader gets a sense of hope that perhaps other inmates will have the courage to leave just as Bromden did.

Randal McMurphy is portrayed as having many various personalities throughout Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy stumbles into the insane asylum as a boisterous new acute. From the start, he openly asserts his strong rebellious personality. McMurphy is a Savior to the other ward patients; rather than someone who brings them down.

His brazen and prideful demeanor challenges Ratched's authority from the start, sparking confusion and change among the patients. McMurphy's power lies in his unique ability to unite the patients and push them to defy Ratched's

“A success, they say, but I say he’s just another robot for the Combine and might be better off as a failure…”(17).

Kesey highlights two distinctions between the roles of women in his novel ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. He places women in two categories, the ‘Ballcutters’ and ‘Whores’ . The ‘Ballcutters’ are presented to have a dominant role over the men within the ‘Combine’ and challenges their masculinity, resulting in them being personified as machines. This is demonstrated when Bromden describes the ‘tip of each finger the same colour as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron’ of Nurse Ratched. Bromden compares the complexion of her fingers and lips with a metal iron, suggesting not only is she machine like, but also has the physical appearance of a metal machine. The ‘Whores’ are Candy and Sandy who are submissive and this stems from the introduction of the contraceptive pill, as ‘feminists encouraged sexual exploitation with multiple partners and claimed sexual pleasure as a woman’s right’, Thus, resulting into them being presented as sexual beings fulfilling the sexual appetite of men.

Randle McMurphy is the protagonist, the hero, of the Oregon psychiatric hospital that is the setting of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. However, McMurphy is not a hero in the conventional sense like Batman or Captain America who serve the purpose of saving people using gadgets and powers; McMurphy does his job through his personality and never with the pure intent that traditional superheroes have within them. In fact, when McMurphy is analyzed using How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster then the true kind of hero he is can be seen. Randle McMurphy is the protagonist, the hero, of the Chief’s story and he shows many of the signs that any hero from any genre would show throughout the entire story, from admittance

Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is an American classic. This story follows the path of Chief Bromden, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, as he gradually recovers from his mental illness. Bromden’s recovery is thanks to Randle McMurphy, who comes onto the ward and changes everything for Bromden. McMurphy brings a new energy with him that helps invigorate and motivate the other men to overcome what’s holding them back, making him the story hero.

Motives are the most common source of an outcome, leading individuals to every action that occurs. Every decision made by an individual is influenced by some sort of motive, whether it is physiological, social, or personal. Ken Kesey presents to the reader the inspiration behind the characters course of action in the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, resulting in the change of heart from Dr.Spivey and Randle McMurphy. The impact from other individuals often alters the reasoning for an action. Doctor Spivey originally supported Nurse Ratched’s actions, but Mcmurphy influenced him to make decisions based on the needs and wants of the patients. Mcmurphy inspires the men to voice their opinion and builds their confidence up, so that they can take on the Nurse. Nurse Ratched does not agree with the men, so she does everything in her power to eliminate the men's masculinity in order for her to keep the ward running like she desires.

Characters like Billy Bibbit, who is too timid, with a speech impediment and Harding who is a closet homosexual and was less avert in sexuality were seen as having mental problems, and were committed to the asylum. McMurphy demonstrated the treating of these patients like normal people, helped them to become more in line with society then Nurse Ratched’s rules and group therapy meetings, or pecking party as Chief Bromden would call it. Chief Bromden was a Native American and wasn’t insane until he was institutionalized and withdrew himself from everyone else pretending he was deaf and dumb to protect himself. Ken Kesey’s message here with Chief Bromdens silence, was to portray the natives of the time having no voice in the country and to show the controlling and manipulative manner of Nurse Ratched that emasculated and de-socialised these grown men.

Ken Kasey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest describes the lives of patients during the late fifties living in the ward of a mental institution. This was a time period where anyone who didn’t fit into societies mould was deemed to be crazy, and often hospitalized. Throughout the novel, power is an underlying theme. When Randle McMurphy enters the hospital, he soon realises the emasculating tactics that Nurse Ratched also known as Big Nurse, uses on all of on the male patients. McMurphy attempts to take control of the ward, as he and Nurse Ratched battle for dominance. The narrator, Chief Bromden notices that McMurphy’s laugh

While the novel itself is portrayed as an odd depiction of the struggle of power in an unrealistic setting, there is a purpose for the information included in the novel, which is full of symbolism. The novel by Ken Kesey was written around the children’s rhyme previously stated and symbolizes the plot. The beginning of the rhyme is displayed as “Ting. Tingle, tangle, tremble toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts them in pens” which also depicts the novel because the fisherman is Nurse Ratched, who “catches hens”, or mentally ill patients and “puts them in pens” by incarcerating them in the psychiatric hospital. The rhyme then continues with “… three geese in a flock, one flew east, one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.”

When McMurphy finds out that he is one of two patients that are involuntarily committed to the hospital, it makes him realize that he alone is fighting for his freedom, and the others have been repressed by Ratched to the point of being afraid to rebel against her or simply leave. McMurphy fights until the end to free these men of their emasculation even if it

The changes people experience over time can range from minor differences to drastic alterations in their personality. Even complete transformations can sometimes be hard to notice, as they may happen subtly and gradually. One of the most interesting elements of novels is how a character matures and develops over time, the way an individual would in reality. Randle McMurphy, the hero figure of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, started out as a light-hearted rebel who challenged authority for entertainment, then became a martyr, eventually dying for the patients of the ward. This character development is integral to the plot, as it is what actually drives the story forward into its climax and conclusion. Milos Forman, the director of the film adaptation of the book, was unsuccessful in portraying this vital element of the novel. McMurphy acted consistently until the ending, when he behaved abruptly and unexpectedly differently. This not only confused the viewers of the movie, but also changed the true meaning behind his actions.

Chief Bromden, the novel’s half-Indian narrator, introduces the reader to the mental ward, a place dominated by Nurse Ratched (is this passive?) and her obedient staff. (think of different description for the ward) When the new patient McMurphy arrives, he challenges Nurse Ratched’s authority and encourages the normally passive and compliant patients to join him in his rebellion against the overpowering staff. The unrelenting power of Nurse Ratched soon discourages McMurphy, but when a fellow patient commits suicide(,?) McMurphy realizes that he must put the needs (specify) of his fellow (redundant) patients above his own desires and revive his rebellion. McMurphy plans a fishing trip for the ward and, upon return, gets into a fistfight

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is seen as obscene, racist, immoral, and sexist to some eyes. It does have some bizarre language, and some obscene scenes, but every great literature attempts to give an accurate picture of some part of the human condition, which is less than perfect. (Sutherland 42) Being in a mental hospital, there are going to be some language that may be offensive and there also will be situations there that are a little