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Does Mcmurphy Change In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a film that can change your perspectives. Randle McMurphy’s side of this story is truly inspiring by the way he made the others feel about themselves. McMurphy lied and pretended to be crazy but rather that he is trying to manipulate the system in his advantage. He thought that being in the mental hospital would be more comfortable than going back to his normal life, he was serving a sit month sentence in prison, which haunts him later when he discovers the power of Nurse Matched manipulates him over so that she can send him for electroshock treatments and keep him committed as long as she likes. However, from what we see McMurphy is not a bad person as the nurse think he is. We see that he does care about the others in the hospital with him, and that he makes them feel no different from he is. …show more content…

He is big, loud, sexual, and confident, is an obvious foil for the quiet and intimidated Bromden and the sterile and mechanical Nurse Ratched. His loud, fee laughter stuns the other paitents, who have grown accustomed to repressed emotions. Throughout his introduction of the film, not a single voice rises to meet his. MacMurphy’s self-sacrifice on his behalf echoes himself on the cross to redeem humankind. He slowly gathers the patients around him as he increases his rebellion against Nurse Ratched. When he takes patients fishing, is if he was leading them to the sea to test their faith. Randle McMurphy starts sane and powerful but ends up helpless, having to sacrifice himself for the benefits of all the patients. What he has learned that he does care about the patients that were around him, he helped each one out and he doesn’t realise

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a psychoanalytical work of literature composed by Ken Kesey which scrutinizes the taxonomy of cell patients in a psychological ward who seek to enact an inner peace through the alleviation of their minds and compliance to their innate, yet inconstruable, paradigms . The narrator, Chief Bromden, is a patient of the ward who tells the story through his pair of cogent, capricious oculi. Randall McMurphy is the protagonist of the novel; he is a newcomer to the ward but is quick to assert his role as a leader. Long term denizens of the ward are inspired and influenced due to his nonchalant behavior towards the staff, most particularly, Billy Bibbit; a young lad who attempted suicide due to rejection. As McMurphy

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Albert Einstein once said, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything”. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey portrays this quote through the main character McMurphy’s internal and external conflicts of falling into Nurse Ratched’s trap of becoming an obedient patient and being under her control or rebelling and fighting for the patients’ rights and freedoms. McMurphy’s actions can lead the reader to assume that he is an evil character, but he redeems himself by partaking in the selfless acts he does for other patients. One way it can be proven that McMurphy is a morally ambiguous character in this novel is that Nurse Ratched uses McMurphy and forcefully puts an idea in other patients minds that McMurphy has purely evil motivations. After McMurphy takes the patients from the ward on a fishing trip, Nurse Ratched has a

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Antisocial Personality Disorder: Then and Now One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest focuses on protagonist Randle McMurphy, a man who purposely gets himself transferred from a prison farm to a psych ward for evaluation, assuming his sentence could be completed labor and stress-free. As McMurphy spends time in the ward, he befriends fellow patients, Billy Bibbit, an adolescent-like man with a stutter and Chief, a towering Native American who is believed to be deaf and mute. McMurphy manipulates and triggers other patients, ultimately to get a rise out of Nurse Ratched, who bullies many of the patients, rather than helping them. As he realizes her constant tyranny with the patients, who are now his friends, it triggers him to aggravate her more. Many

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His scars also inform us, you guessed it, that McMurphy is different from the other patients in the ward in a sense that the damages of life have toughened him up as opposed to other the patients who are very weak minded and subservient. This is shown to us throughout the book by the fact that McMurphy is the one who opposes Nurse Ratched's tyrannical rule while the other patients just follow his

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To conclude, in the process of starting out sane and powerful but willing to sacrifice himself to the extent of ending up as a helpless vegetable, McMurphy portrays himself as a

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In addition, his dissatisfying slurs about Nurse Ratched’s body made him look like a terrible human being. Next, when McMurphy slammed his hand twice through the Nurses’ Stations glass he made a dangerous situation that should and was reprehensible. Lastly, with McMurphy’s indiscretions, Nurse Ratched had to make the safe decision by turning the other patient's opinions against McMurphy’s trip. The ultimate message was to portray that sometimes with the mentally ill there are right times when harsh, strict, and orderly rules enforced by someone who is strong is a good

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This madness in Mcmurphy gives the men hope throughout the novel. The irrational behavior can be judge as reasonable in many cases. Mcmurphy is a big, loud and confident man. He’s different from many other patients in the ward. When he first entered the ward he was laughing and telling jokes.

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The protagonist, Randle McMurphy, referred to as "Mac," can be considered an anti-hero. When placed in a mental institution center, he disagrees with the practices upheld by Nurse Ratched, played by Louise Fletcher. The other patients are afraid of Nurse Ratched, and her abuse of authority. Mac notices this and takes advantage, become a leader of new patient rebellion. Although the audience is most likely aware that the patients are better off in the institution than otherwise, they cannot help but root for the rebellion, because they are aware of the negative side of how the patients are treated.

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By weakening McMurphy’s power in the ward, she creates an environment where can continue to thrive in her power through the systems she has set in place. However, Nurse Ratched’s plan does not succeed and McMurphy is allowed to proceed with his fishing trip. He continues to undermine the nurse’s authority to the point where he physically assults her after she blames Billy’s death on him. His actions give Nurse Ratched an opportunity to give him the ultimate punishment, a

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What separates this film from others is its’ use of movie devices and techniques, as well as the emotionally charged story. What makes “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest” special is the set of characters. We have Randle McMurphy, the fearless and cold criminal which it turns out, actually has a heart of gold. We have the calm and cold nurse Mildred Ratchet that tries with her full power to stop McMurphy from doing his mischief. And of course the patients like Billy Bibbit, Charlie Cheswick, Martini and Chief Bromden, all played beautifully by the actors, making the viewers feel that they are inside the mental institution.

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(Kesey 17). McMurphy disregards their discomfort in favor of his own amusement. At the end of his introduction, he directly tells Nurse Ratchet that when it

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