What does McMurphy sacrifice for the other patients?
Under the invisible but heavy pressure of the other patients’ expectations, McMurphy makes the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that Ratched cannot use Billy’s death to undo everything they have gained. By attacking Ratched and ripping her uniform, he permanently breaks her power but also forfeits his own life.
What does McMurphy teach the other patients about being on the outside?
McMurphy tries to teach the other patients another way to cope with the outside world, without using an approach of total conformity. They begin to see themselves as men, not as feeble mental patients.
How does McMurphy different from the other patients?
McMurphy differs from the other patients because he doesn’t have anyone to care about or to bring him to his knees (what Chief believes). McMurphy is very outgoing and gets “the boys” of the ward together, he’s “the life of the party”.
Why is Chief Bromden the narrator?
First Person (Chief Bromden) Chief is an interesting narrator because he is certainly not unbiased, and his mental illness can also shed doubt on his reliability.
What are the themes in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Themes
- Sanity v. Insanity.
- Institutional Control vs. Human Dignity.
- Social Pressure and Shame. Randle McMurphy is shocked to learn that there are more men on the psych ward who are voluntarily committed than those, like him, who have been committed by the state.
- The Combine: Machine, Nature, and Man.
- Emasculation and Sexuality.
What happens to McMurphy at the end?
In retaliation, she has him lobotomized, and he returns to the ward as a vegetable. However, Ratched has lost her tyrannical power over the ward. Bromden suffocates McMurphy in his bed, enabling him to die with some dignity rather than live as a symbol of Ratched’s power.
Is Ratched actually a nurse?
She is a character, invented for Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. However, Kesey has revealed in interviews that he based Nurse Ratched on a real person, who had been the head nurse of the psychiatric ward where the author had worked as a night-shift orderly.Mehr 8, 1399 AP