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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Online Term Papers

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Superpowers of the Ward

Darien Chastain
11/14/12
Period 3

In Ken Kesey's novel, ``The Cuckoos Nest'', there is a strong physiological aspect on how both McMurphy and Nurse Ratched affect the ward. I believe this is directly because of their pasts. Even though their pasts were completely different, both of them affect the ward in drastic ways.

With McMurphy's past as a gambler and a con man, it creates a great leader for the men to follow him away from the suppressed life with Ratched in control. He also tricks Ratched into gambling with him, in having her bet his next move to make her mad and loose control. First of all McMurphy starts by telling the men, ``One week, and if I ...

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you dare. You get back in that dorm and get your clothes on this instant!'(p.96)''. It shows that Ratched doesn't believe men can run around unless fully clothed because their bodies are, in basic sense, something to be ashamed of. McMurphy does all he can in order to prove to them that isn't true and Ratched is trying to degrade them.

On the other hand, Nurse Ratched is completely opposite of McMurphy. She grew up with strict values and a sense of order and control. She was an army nurse for the navy so the training required had molded her into the woman we know in the book. She believes that if there isn't complete control then it's broken, `` The Big Nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate precision-made machine. The slightest thing messy or out of kilter or in the way ties her into a little white knot of tight-smiled furry.(p.28)'' Nurse Ratched has also been referred to as the ``combine'' or a ``machine'' by Bromden. ...

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Added: 4/5/2013 01:10:55 PM
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