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Conflict In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Bromden states “A former army nurse, Nurse Ratched represents the oppressive mechanization, dehumanization, and emasculation of modern society.” She is the basis of the conflict within the book ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST which involves Randle McMurphy struggles to go against her and the tyranny she imposes upon the mental hospital. This conflict resembles the internal struggle within the Harry Potter films of Harry Potter and Voldemort. Randle P. McMurphy, a criminal sent to a prison instead of a working farm to a mental institute for evaluation of his mental status. However, he decided to go to a psychiatric hospital because going there would be less work than going to the farm. This opportunity arose when he was diagnosed as …show more content…

This is the infamous story of his life when Voldemort came to his home and killed his parents trying to get to him because he is believed to be the chosen one to defeat him. This is where the battle between good and evil was created in the wizarding world. Harry Potter is a child who grows into the hero of all, gleaming characteristics of loyalty and bravery. Forced into the limelight because of his infamous past of surviving the death spell and making him the target of evil. Subsequently creating a rising hope for the people who fear the man who gave him this exact scar. Well, Voldemort is the epidemy of the sense of evil everyone who is against him dares not speak his name and the ones who follow him have an unrelenting loyalty with him. His followers have such loyalty because of the way that Voldemort’s authority has over them he controls them through torture and the prize of him not killing you. This created a slow and up and coming immense battle between good evil which only one will come out victorious. Harry is the only one able to defeat Voldemort, and he knows this which makes him relentless when hunting him down, but this comes to no prevail because of the infinite hope Harry has placed in the heart of the resistance. This storyline has a strong affinity with Nurse Ratched and

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