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...?One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the best movies that best illustrates issues of mentality disorders. The movie focusses on the characters of mentally challenged individuals who have been placed in a correctional facility. The main actor, Randle McMurphy, has been serving a jail term after being convicted of raping a 15 year old. However, McMurphy decides to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital rather than staying in jail and doing heavy manual work. One Flew...
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...and change as he helps empower the other patients. Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest focuses on the power struggle between a dictatorship and a democracy. Although both leaders strive for power over the patients, McMurphy's tactics win the patient's allegiance while Nurse Ratchett retains control of the weaponry so neither one really wins. Both McMurphy and Nurse Ratched are using the patients in the ward to fulfill their own personal desires. It is clear from the beginning of the story that McMurphy faked insanity to escape the hard work at the Pendleton Work Farm, “Don’t overlook the possibility that this...
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...Addressing the Needs of the Cuckoo's Nest Life doesn't always work out the way we've planned and sometimes even master manipulators get caught in their own trap. This would seem to be the case for Randy McMurphy in Ken Kesey's story One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The story is about a fictional psychiatric hospital located somewhere in Oregon and opens just before Randy McMurphy is brought in. The narrator of the story is a large man - half Indian - who pretends he is deaf and dumb in order to avoid being forced into what he calls the machine by which he is referring to the organized governmental system that the...
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...? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 11/10/11 English 102/018 Nurse Ratched as Castrating Female by Shari Booker Introduction Nurse Ratchedis the worst in a female character, especially when one regards her as a nurse. Nurses are supposed to be caring and helpful. Particularly a nurse who is in a psychiatric ward, as these patients need understanding and helpfulness the most. However, Nurse Ratched not only is not the epitome of caring and helpfulness, but she exhibits the exact opposite traits. She is also not maternal in the least, despite some of her physical characteristics. She is therefore the opposite of what a woman should be,...
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...Full Psychology 101: (Film: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) 06 April (estimated word count 812) Introduction The film “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest” further established the reputation of Mr. Jack Nicholson as one of Hollywood's more bankable stars which also led to other big roles in other subsequent films, such as “Batman” and “As Good as It Gets” but he got his big break years earlier in the film-noir “Chinatown” directed by the famous Roman Polanski. That said, Nicholson is best...
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...One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; a film based on Ken Kesey’s novel, which has the same title, revolves around the actions of McMurphy played by Jack Nicholson. Therefore, the film portrays the effect of McMurphy’s institution into a mental hospital filled with patients devoid of the willpower to get better. The film also showcases the role of nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher in the recovery of the institutionalized patients. The highlight of the entire film revolves...
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Ken Kessy’s work “One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest” is a novel that studies the behavioral characteristics of psychiatric patients in a hospital setting. The novel is narrated by one of the patients called “chief” Bromden who is believed to be deaf and mute. The novel is centered on the life of McMurphy, one the patients who had feigned illness to escape a jail term where work was tiring and unpleasing. While in the hospital, he becomes rebellious and antagonizes the nurse in charge, Nurse Ratched who is...
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...Personal Voice and the Validity of Events in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Throughout his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey usesthe voices of different character's to carry the story along, giving it depth and meaning along the way. Using the personal voice of different characters Kesey is able to convey different perspectives giving the reader as better understanding of the points he wishes to make. Kesey goes deeper than the character's vocal expressions. He uses their actions, thoughts, past history and their reactions to others to aid in the...
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9. McMurphy becomes a patient of the mental hospital. Nurse Ratched becomes his rival. He throws an out-of-bounds party after which he is lobotomized. Finally, he is killed.
10. It would be the theme of rebellion against the rules.
11. The film is about a persons uprising against the system and rules. The suggested dichotomy is power and authority vs. freedom.
12. In case “Chief” Bromden was a protagonist, the theme would deal mostly with family and friendship and sense of duty.
13. It would change a Boss to a Villain because it is the latter that plots and tries to cover something.
14. It was morally right for “Chief” Bromden to suffocate McMurphy so that the latter does not appear as a loser in the eyes of Nurse...
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