Nurse Ratched Essays

Cuckoo’s Nest, the mental patients were not able to view Nurse Ratched as a woman, despite her physical features. This was because of her ruthless demonstrations of authority, and strength. Nurse Ratched is the all-powerful nurse in the ward of a mental hospital, during the years of the 50s and 60s. The men are fearful of her and always complied with her rules accordingly until Randall McMurphy swaggered in. Nonetheless his power was still minor to Nurse Ratched’s. “She’s impregnable herself, and with the

Those who are in a mental institution program should be taken seriously and not be treated as if they were invisible. People usually do not get the help they need because they do not know where to start and the job of the nurses and doctors are to take care of them. A mental illness does not go away on its own, it is something that the person has to work on even if it is a long process, the progress will be made. People are terrified of what will happen to them or what others think of them, which

Throughout the beginning of the novel it is evident that some characters over use their powers, one of these characters being Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched uses her position in the ward to take advantage of the patients and make sure that they adhere to everyone of her daunting commands. Nurse Ratched “tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine” (Kesey 28) because she has been on the ward for so long that when something doesn

Nurse Ratched, the head administrative nurse at a mental institution, exercised her near-absolute power over every aspect of the patients’ lives. Over time, she gradually gained a strong position of power, which was only strengthened by her ability to determine the fates of her patients. She was presented as a controlling, yet peaceful character, ensuring that her calculate outlook on the patients was upheld on every measure. Her strong personality is not seen as superficial, rather permanent through

Is precisely expressed through Nurse Ratched and McMurphy’s relationship and their effect on the patients in the ward. Nurse Ratched is the antagonist in the book, she is the authoritative figure to the men in the institution and she is determined to continue to abuse her power over the men and remain in control. She emasculates the

he witnesses recurring power struggle between male and female characters, such as between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy, or between his parents. Although widely regarded as kind and benign characters in society at the time, in these conflicts, female characters are often tagged with detrimental characteristics, and therefore are depicted as demeaning antagonists. Through Chief’s biased narration, Nurse Ratched is often seen to be emasculating patients, through influencing their way of thinking, and

after being caught by Nurse Ratched. They are scared by her and fear her actions. Another example of this is on pages 4 and 5, is “She’s going to tear the black bastards limb from limb, she’s so furious. She’s swelling up, swells till her back’s splitting out the white uniform and she’s let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the three of them five, six times. She looks around her with a swivel of her huge head.” This shows the fear

Describe Nurse Ratched. How does she treat patients like Billy Bibbit? Why does she treat him this way? And why would Kesey create a character like Nurse Ratched? What is he trying to say about authority? Heartless, cruel, and sadistic are all words people may use to characterize Nurse Ratched. She keeps dictatorial control over her patients, shatters patients' self worth, and is the symbol of evil and oppression in the novel. She treats patients with this authority so that they let her control

Nurse Ratched is the enermy of the worst kind in this book Nurse Ratched feeds on order, and she wants total power , she plans mind games with her patients. Ratched as the head nurse and as a woman. she is able to move things so that most situations fit her ideas. If Nurse Ratched needs to, she uses the force to get things done. She smiles a lot and verbalizes. She sits tall with a straight face in the chair during their talk meetings. She uses her voice with a tone that makes her seem strong to

The conflict between the two main character's Nurse Ratched and McMurphy serves as a bridge for the overarching theme of sexuality. Or to be more specific the battle of sexuality. In the book the two main characters represent both sides of the spectrum when it comes to sexuality concerning genders. Nurse Ratched represents feminism and McMurphy represents masculinity. With the two conflicting views of how the character’s believe the institution for the mentally ill should be run you can see more

person in charge of the institution in the book was Nurse Ratched. Often, she was referred to as the “Big Nurse.” Nurse Ratched demanded respect and power from the wards of the institution. She manipulated the patients and the other staff members to obey her. When the nurse is introduced in the novel, an eerie feeling overwhelms you. Instantly you can feel the fear of the narrator, Chief Bromden, whom is also a patient. Early in the novel the nurse is described as strong and powerful, “Practice has

superiority with a very controlling woman named Nurse Ratchet. However in a surprising twist of events, Nurse Ratchet manages to beat McMurphy after he attacks her. Some may argue that McMurphy won the battle because of the state of the ward that he had left it in, however this allowed her to restart her empire at the ward and be able to finish McMurphy once and for all. To start, some may argue that Mcmurphy was victorious in this battle against Nurse Ratched because he won the most battles.

McMurphy strives to get accustomed to the system of the ward as he continues his heroic journey. McMurphy utilizes his keen thinking skills as a mean of achieving his desires because he ensures his decisions are within a boundary of what he is permitted to do. McMurphy capitalizes on the rules to watch the World Series by encouraging a majority to vote for it: “You can get back to the bloody schedule next week, when the Series is over. What do you say, buddies? Let’s take a vote on watching the TV

a 15-year old. Upon arriving at the hospital, McMurphy finds that the ward is run by the hard and resolute Nurse Ratched, who intimidates the patients by her manipulative tendencies and suppresses their actions through a passive-aggressive routine. McMurphy with his stubbornness tries to contradict Ratched whenever he can and gained the trust

Without a doubt, Nurse Ratched and McMurphy were two of the largest characters in the novel, lying on two opposite sides of the novel’s central conflict regarding institutional authority. In the course of several discussions, various perspectives regarding the relationship of these two forces arouse, ultimately resulting in the realization of how it is eternally and purposefully debatable about whether the Combine or McMurphy truly won the novel’s central conflict and the true meaning of victory

In this extract from the part 3, everyone is drinking and catching big fish on the boat. McMurphy doesn’t help the men who plead with him to pull in the fish; he just watches and laughs. First, it is evident that McMurphy is deliberately absent because he knows the men need this opportunity to see that they can do things on their own, without him. The patients finally experienced the freedom of action – to be a normal person. When Harding realised that McMurphy would not help him, he "got the

criticizes him for taking that abuse and says nurse Ratched is a ball cutter which the beginning of this view that nurse ratched being a cruel and manipulative person. Harding is the first to tell Mcmurphy “we are victims of a matriarchy here” on page 63. Though this whole book may seem negative towards women, the author includes equality aimed remarks. One example of one of these equality aimed remarks is this statement from Mcmurphy on page 60 “No, that nurse ain’t some kinda monster chicken buddy, what

The men in the ward were very static characters when controlled by nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched inhibits the rehabilitation process by hindering the potentials of all the men. She commits crimes against humanity to exert her dominance therefore hindering the recuperation of the men. Much like freedom, confinement is a very important theme to this novel. This is shown with the various techniques of tortures nurse ratched incorporates. The lack of change is directly due to the manipulation and exploitation

We hear a scream from another room. It was a feminine scream so it must have been a nurse. We all look in that direction to see a nurse covered in blood streaks screaming and running from the bedrooms. Everyone in the ward goes to see what has happened and I follow in the back. Nurse Ratched runs over and pushing through the crowd of people blocking the door. She yells and shoves people until finally she can see what has happened. I weave my way up to the doorway until I too can see everything going

Nurse Ratched views McMurphy as a clog in her machine. A rattle that could collapse her entire machine that she defines her life 's work. She views him as a lowlife, that has entered the ward to rob the inmates of their money. She is not amused, nor accepting of McMurphy as a human and tries to derail him any chance she can get. McMurphy and Chief see that while Nurse Ratched is the root of the inmates fear, it is them that have lost the will and the drive to live. The inmates themselves are their