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

Throughout the entire book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched and McMurphy are always in constant battle. Mack was the only person who challenged her. “She tried to get her ward back into shape, but it was difficult with McMurphy’s presence still tromping up and down the halls and laughing out loud in the meetings and singing in the latrines. She couldn’t rule with her old power any more, not by writing things on pieces of paper. She was losing her patients one after the other”(Kesey 320-321). Prior to McMurphy’s arrival to the ward, there was no joy. No. No laughter. And only what the Big Nurse said. Unfortunately, the rest of the patients had always been too afraid of what would happen. So she did what she wanted. Over time,

She thought she could change his ways because he wasn't special. Ratched said: “No. he isn't extraordinary in that. He is simply a man and no more, and is subject to all the fears and all the cowardice and all the timidity that any other man is subject to”(Kesey 157). He realized that she had total control of his fate, so he decided to behave. For the first time in a long time, McMurphy was afraid. Luckily, this only lasted a short time before he saw that he was the only one who could help the others. Breaking the glass in retaliation, signifies that there was no more fear, and soon to be no more power of the patients. In the end, Mack was forced to have a lobotomy. Her goal was to give him an example of what would happen if she was not obeyed. Chief saved Mack’s fate by strangling him to death; the war was over. Mack won and broke Nurse Ratched’s power one last time. Chief Bromden uses ‘fog’ as his escape from fear in the Cuckoo Nest. It was his escape from reality while he was in the military and it stuck with him for almost his entire time at the ward. “Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now, as bad as it is, you can slip back in and feel