What is Reality -- Cuckoos Nest
What is reality? The novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey, explores living in a mental institution through the mind of a patient. As the reader begins the novel, they would naturally think that a patient found in a mental hospital would be insane. As Kesey introduces you to the patients, and you see the institution in their eyes, you believe that they are really normal people, and society is insane. The main character, Chief Bromden is a half Indian man, who is considered schizophrenic. Randall McMurray, the newest patient in the ward, causes many difficult situations for the Nurse. Nurse Ratched is the authority figure for the patients and likes everything to be run her way. A man who is known as Chief Bromden, the main character, starts as seeming to be a shy, weak man. This is shown in the first chapter on page three, when a caretaker of the institution talks of him while he is present, "Big enough to eat apples off my head an' he mine me like a baby." Chief Bromden is in the hospital because he is schizophrenic, and is considered deaf and dumb, because he never talks or acknowledges people. At the end of the novel, McMurray becomes a vegetable because of all of the shock treatments he had received. Bro
Nurse Ratched is one of the three female characters found in the novel. She is described to be a "ball-crusher," meaning that because she is in control of the men, and that the men are ashamed of this, because she is a woman. The other two characters are prostitutes, generally they display the women in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest negatively, while the men are shown as heroes. At one point, the patients have a huge party during the night when she is not there, and they completely trash the ward. Billy Bibbit, a patient who isn't committed, but does not have the confidence to live in the "real" world, loses his virginity to a prostitute. Nurse Ratched cannot deal with the fact that they outright rebelled against her so she targets Billy, the weakest of the bunch. her until she wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hair-like wires, too small The Chief stands out from the rest of the men of the ward. Physically, he stands out by being half Indian, with long, black oily hair. Also, he is a very large man, standing 6'7" and having a very muscular build, from playing football when he was a teenager. He stands out mentally by being a "chronic." P.301, "What worries me Billy, is how your poor mother is going to take this."
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Christ McMurray's,
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Approximate Word count = 1466
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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