One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis
Nurse Ratchet’s Manipulation
Farah Pazienza
Sanford-Brown Online
Nurse Ratchet’s Manipulation
In Ken Kesey 's novel One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest, Nurse Ratched took away the freedom of the patients mentally, physically, and spiritually. One of the major themes in the novel is the Big Nurse, Nurse Ratchet’s subjugation of the patients. Subjugation means to take away freedom, to make submissive by gaining control of someone or something by use of manipulation or force (Subjugate). In the OFOCN, Nurse Ratchet emasculates the patients repeatedly, by her various control issues. Before McMurphy is committed to mental hospital, Nurse Ratchet ran a submissive ward and did not have much trouble from anyone. The patients had viewed her as an angel. This is …show more content…
This theme as discussed through the examples discussed above is clearly evident. However, in the end the Big Nurse loses because the men finally gain their manhood and sign themselves out, the ones who did not kill themselves or who were not lobtomized. With the death of McMurphy, , the symbol of freedom after the labotomy, as the Big Nurses, nemisis, the patients gained their confidence back and went to the real world and out of her care. The chief, gained his “bigness” back thanks to McMurphy and was able to gain his freedom by breaking out by the very way McMurphy told him in spite of the nurse. Ultimitely, through out the Kesey’s novel, the Nurse Ratched demonstrated her evil ways and hate towards the patients, by undermining, emasculating, and palycating the men in every aspect of their life, by making them feel she was a good mother type and was doing everything for their cure, when in fact it was underlying reasoning of revenge in some way and cooperation with Combine on the inside and outside
Farah Pazienza
Sanford-Brown Online
Nurse Ratchet’s Manipulation
In Ken Kesey 's novel One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest, Nurse Ratched took away the freedom of the patients mentally, physically, and spiritually. One of the major themes in the novel is the Big Nurse, Nurse Ratchet’s subjugation of the patients. Subjugation means to take away freedom, to make submissive by gaining control of someone or something by use of manipulation or force (Subjugate). In the OFOCN, Nurse Ratchet emasculates the patients repeatedly, by her various control issues. Before McMurphy is committed to mental hospital, Nurse Ratchet ran a submissive ward and did not have much trouble from anyone. The patients had viewed her as an angel. This is …show more content…
This theme as discussed through the examples discussed above is clearly evident. However, in the end the Big Nurse loses because the men finally gain their manhood and sign themselves out, the ones who did not kill themselves or who were not lobtomized. With the death of McMurphy, , the symbol of freedom after the labotomy, as the Big Nurses, nemisis, the patients gained their confidence back and went to the real world and out of her care. The chief, gained his “bigness” back thanks to McMurphy and was able to gain his freedom by breaking out by the very way McMurphy told him in spite of the nurse. Ultimitely, through out the Kesey’s novel, the Nurse Ratched demonstrated her evil ways and hate towards the patients, by undermining, emasculating, and palycating the men in every aspect of their life, by making them feel she was a good mother type and was doing everything for their cure, when in fact it was underlying reasoning of revenge in some way and cooperation with Combine on the inside and outside