One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest And The Scarlet Letter: To Live With Fear

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taken advantage of by orderlies, they were caught and
sentenced to electro-shock therapy (EST). The Chi usually blacked out in a
fog when confronted with problems; however, this time (he had endured over
200 EST sessions previously) he did not. However, McMurphy was
deteriorating, and the two seemed to be reversing positions. McMurphy
eventually was sentenced to a lobotomy, which left him as a helpless,
pathetic person, as the Chief had once been. The Chief now had the courage
to put McMurphy out of his misery, despite what the head nurse, Nurse
Ratched, the symbol of the combine to the Chief, would do to him. He
smothered McMurphy, and afterwards, escaped by lifting the control panel,
which McMurphy told him that he could lift but the Chief saw himself as
"small," a symbol of his strength against the combine, and breaking a
window with it. The mere fact that the Chief could lift the panel was
proof that he had become "bigger," even than McMurphy, who could not lift
it. ...

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