Manipulation In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey the author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Wrote McMurphy as a confident, positive and stronger person to make a positive impact to the patients in the Mental Institution, by challenging the Nurse Ratched and her authority. The author wants to show the impact that McMurphy has on the patients, the conflict between McMurphy and the Nurse Ratched to expose the corruption of power, and also it shows the theme of Manipulation. McMurphy’s positive attitude had a huge impact on the patients of the mental Institution. First of all thanks to McMurphy, in the ward they were going to do a carnival; When McMurphy had the interview with the doctor, they realize that they studied in the same school and they started to talk

Many of the rules Nurse Ratched has in place are petty; the only point of most rules is for Nurse Ratched to display her control over the patients’ lives. Rules range from music constantly remaining on in the main hangout room,to eat their medicines, if they do something wrong they get electroshock therapy and the toothpaste being locked away as if it could be used as a weapon or a way of escaping the ward. Ratched Approaching the power that she has to do whatever she wants with them; Like, Lord Acton an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer once said; “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority”(Lord Acton).Acton saying that, demonstrates how people by more power they have, they feel more capable of doing whatever they want to; For example, The fights between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy, where McMurphy hates the way that Nurse Ratched manipulates all the patients. McMurphy is so tired and angry that he once strangled her, because he was feeling mcmurphy was feeling helpless trying to help all the patients

The Nurse Ratched, maintains her power on the ward by manipulating the men’s fears and desires. She uses shame to keep them submissive. She manipulates her staff through insinuation and by carefully stroking their hatred. When she is unable to get the protagonist, McMurphy, under control, she tries to manipulate the other patients to turn against him by suggesting that he is manipulative himself and has never helped the men without getting something in return.We can relate this event with the phrase of Philip k. Dick, an extraordinary American Science fiction writer, he says; “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words” (Popova, Maria). That's what Nurse Ratched do with all the patients, she use the words to manipulate the patients and do whatever she wants with them. In other hand;The Nurse Ratched wasn't the only one who manipulates in the mental institution, McMurphy also manipulates the patients in there, but McMurphy do it in a different way, he manipulates the patients so they can be more free, confident about themselves and don't let themselves be manipulated by Nurse Ratched.Manipulation in the novel is a bad and a good thing. Is a bad thing in the side of the Nurse Ratched, were she’s the one in there that has the power and the audacity of manipulate everyone in the ward; Manipulation in the other