Cuckoo's Wife Quotes

In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, what it means to be human is huge for many of the characters. One of which is the Big Nurse, throughout the story she is described as more of a robot with a huge amount of power over people by the main character, Chief. This is much like the “Man Who Profits” in the song I love you- Fontaintes D.C. His story is that out of everything bad happening in the world, the Man Who Profits doesn’t care about helping, even if he’s the only one who can. The fact that the Big Nurse is more or less a blank sheet of paper and never changes and how the Man Who Profits has lost all sense of self makes them similar, inhuman. Even though there is not a lot of information about the Man Who Profits, we can tell

With all of this in mind, when the singer says “Say it to him 50 times and still [he] won’t cry.” really shows what I’m talking about come to light. What really got me from the quote was that he won’t cry, to everyone this is a normal thing that people do but for him, he lost the ability and in turn lost a part of his humanity. The nurse shows her true colors in a different way, for the reader we see this world from the eyes of a person that is mentally going away, so when he sees something that would be taken in a non-literal way, he actually sees it, So when Chief says “She blows bigger and bigger, as big as a traitor, so big I can small the machinery” She doesn’t actually smell like machinery but you as the reader can tell that the way she acts and is more of a robot than anything else to Chief, she has also lost her sense of humanity. The world is a place of peace. The Man Who Profits, as said previously, is a person with a lot of power, power over change in the

After the singer talks more about all the wrong in the world, he says “Say it to the man who profits and [he] walks by” to show how much he doesn't care. The words “walks by” really got my eye, now obviously he didn’t walk by but it means he is walking by everything the singer is talking about, choosing to not even acknowledge its existence but with the power the man has, he could help all of it. We can also see this in the Big Nurse, in the story there is a time where a patient starts watching the TV after doing his work and after some back and forth banter she says “Mr. McMurphy, I’m warning you” Her power hungriness in the scene can be overlooked in the moment but if you take a step back and pretend this happened in real life, can you think of the outcome of raising your voice at a person that’s not mentally well? How horrible would you need to be at your job or as a person to do that? In real life there’s huge consequences to doing that in a professional setting and none the less at a person that needs to be in a ward over something so