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Examples Of Mcmurphy In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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“A leader is a dealer in hope.” This famous quote by Napoleon Bonaparte, a leader of the French in the 1800’s, conveys how the right leader brings hope into a hopeless situation. Having someone to follow when taking risks and walking into new scenarios can often reveal the solution to all of your difficulties. Once you have a role model in life that stands up for what they believe in and their followers, you can start moving in the right direction in life. Having a leader in life that represents the solution you are trying to accomplish, will make it easier to complete your goal. Although leaders can sometimes have the wrong intentions, the right guidance is needed to allow a group of people to fix their problems. McMurphy leads the patients …show more content…

McMurphy is not in the mental ward because he is insane. McMurphy is there because it is a better living option for him than work farm he was previously in after jail. Since McMurphy is not crazy, the patients think of him as a normal person in society. Normal people in society are free and can do what they please. Therefore, the patients look at McMurphy as a symbol of freedom. Leading to the patients to believing that it is possible to have a better life once they get out of the mental ward. Additionally, McMurphy demonstrated to the patients that there is a way off of the mental ward. He explained to the patients that he would try to escape from the ward by throwing the control panel out the window. At the end of the book, Chief Bromden escapes the ward by following McMurphy’s teachings and throwing the control panel out the window. McMurphy’s symbol of freedom eventually led to Chief Bromden escaping the ward into a better life. In like manner, Chief Bromden killed McMurphy when he came back from electric shock therapy. After electric shock therapy, McMurphy was not himself anymore. He did not represent, he represented control instead. Consequently, Chief Bromden killed McMurphy to put him out of his misery. Chief Bromden followed McMurphy's leadership allowing him to see that everyone needs to be free. This allows for McMurphy not having to live while being controlled and Chief Bromden being able to see the world

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He keeps himself away from the Acutes and Chronics by pretending to be deaf and dumb (“One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest” 6). The ironic thing about the story is that he [Bromden] is the narrator, telling the reader about everything hears. Bromden is a main character who does what he’s told when he’s told; “Stick a mop in my hand and motion to the spot they aim for me to clean today, and I go” (Kesey 3). If he’s caught slackin’, they’ll whack him in the back of the knees with a handle from whatever they’ve got in hand to get him moving. As the reader gets farther in the novel, they’ll notice how Bromden starts to do what McMurphy says

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For the character McMurphy for example, he was unable to find his place in society due to his criminal behaviour and actions, which made him be viewed as mad. Although he was only wrongly accused of his actions, such as seen with his conviction of statutory rape, and his rebellious nature made it a challenge for him to be accepted within his society . It can further be seen within the character Billy Bibbit, who price for being unable to live up to the expectations his mother put upon him, was his own life, and resulted in him having a hard time coping with all the unfortunate circumstances in his life. These unfortunately were brought upon by this pressure and rejection of those around him, that has not driven him mad, however has only pushed him to his limitations and caused others to only perceive he is truly mad. Lastly, this was seen within the character Chief Bromden, whose Native American background is repressed by society, thus causing the Chief a tremendous amount of pain, anger and grief, that made him be looked upon as crazy and pushed even further

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McMurphy does the exact opposite and acts out inspite of someone else controlling him. He does this in order to prove to all the other patients that he is going to be in charge and take over Harding’s place. Also, McMurphy tries to

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In Ken Kesye's " one flew over the cockoo's nest" we have different characters and different topics. Narcissism is a very important topic. Narcissist is a person who envies himself a lot and is selfish, who doesn't care about anything and anyone except from himself. We alse have Narcissistic personality disorder which is a sickness based upon someones overwhelming confidence and lack of empathy. Is our novel McMurphy is a character that appears very fascinated with himself throughout the book.

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As Bromden grew as person, McMurphy has now been stripped of his rights as a person, which is evident by Bromden’s actions. Ken Kesey

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According to the ADAA, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, in 2015, 16.1 million adults in the United States have experienced depression at one point of their life. A well-known electrical procedure called Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (ECT) was used back in the 1930’s and 1940’s and still currently used today to treat depression and other mental illnesses to trigger a brief seizure. It was to believe to result to reversing symptoms of certain mental illnesses and can be an option for mentally ill patients when medications are not effective. However, ECT was often represented as an abusive form of control towards mentally ill patients in movies and TV shows when their behavior is unmanageable. In the film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched uses ECT to

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Once McMurphy helped him realize that, he became a new, confident, man. Bromden no longer had to hide because he thought he was insignificant. He could now be anyone

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In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the main character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, is a perfect example of a tragic hero. Throughout the novel McMurphy sets himself up to be the tragic hero by resenting Nurse Ratched’s power and defending the other patients. He can be classified as a contemporary tragic hero, but he also includes elements of Aristotle’s tragic hero. McMurphy’s rebellious nature and ultimate demise are what truly makes him as a tragic hero.

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All of McMurphy violent behavior was for the men to better themselves. He prepared them for real world outside of the ward. He helped them not to get pushed around and to not be afraid to do what they want. Mcmurphy’s madness is made reasonable as it provided the patients with hope and helped them return to a sane lifestyle. By the end, McMurphy managed to release many of the patients to their normal senses, Even though it caused him to lose his freedom.

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The question of sanity becomes apparent when McMurphy, a confident gambler, who might have faked psychosis in order to get out of the work farm, is assigned to the mental hospital. He quickly stirs up tension in the ward for Nurse Ratched by encouraging the men to have fun and rebel against her rules. Brodmen appears to be sane for the most part, despite his hallucinations of a fog, which seems to be the result of something both the ward and the world has done to him. He is able to think logically and though others believe him to be deaf and dumb, he uses this to his advantage. Chief states, “They don't bother not talking out loud about their hate secrets when I'm nearby because they think I'm deaf and dumb.

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He also takes all of the patients out on a fishing trip, and one night he turns her whole ward into a party room. These changes of setting help the patients of the ward escape some of Nurse Ratched’s domination. In the end, thanks to McMurphy, Chief is able to instigate a change of scenery for himself, and he escapes the ward

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McMurphy arrives to the ward thinking he is different from the other patients on the ward, but throughout the novel his hidden subconscious thoughts of his true mental state are revealed. While introducing himself to the patients, McMurphy tells the background story of how he ended up where he was. He says that the “court ruled that [he’s] a psychopath” (13), and he didn’t argue with that ruling. Although he doesn’t deny that he belongs on a mental ward, he claims that he only acted the way he did to leave “those damned pea fields” (13) and quit working. Because he is a true gambler at heart, he bets the patients that he can get under Nurse Ratched’s skin and shake up things on the ward.

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It gives the impression that it is his strongest weapon as it gives him safety by preventing him from losing his humanity. This also suggests the beginning of McMurphy's sacrifice and eagerness to escape the conforming attitudes that is placed on him, representing The Counter Culture Revolution. Chief Bromden is an autodiegetic narrator however he suffers from hallucinations this is evident through the interlace structure which gives the impression he is an unreliable narrator. This also depicts to the readers a vivid image of the emotional and psychological state of the patients too. However, Bromden as a narrator instead of McMurphy gives the readers a narration that is not subjective and reliable.

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Another point to note was that McMurphy seems abnormal among the patients. Especially with his laugh, I kept thinking that he might be mentally ill and not fake it (Kesey). But if you just imagine his behavior outside of the asylum, then it seems normal. This phenomenon is well known in psychology. It says that person once convicted of mental illness have an uphill battle to prove that he is not.

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