with a few differences. R.P. McMurphy is the main character in Ken

Kesey’s classic novel about Mac’s experiences coming into a mental

hospital which is very corrupt, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Luke

is the main character in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, which won two

Oscars. Luke is sentenced to a stretch after he is arrested for drunkenly

decapitating the heads off of parking meters. Cool Hand Luke is the story

of Luke living in a chain gang. Although Lukes story takes place in

prison on a chain gang, and Mac’s Story takes place in a mental hospital,

these characters are shockingly similar.

One of the first differences between these two characters is how

they respond to higher authority. Luke does what he is told, while Mac

will resist authority and fight back. One example of this is after Luke

escapes. The guards order him to dig a hole and then fill it back up

repeatedly. Luke obeys and does not stop until the guards let him.

Whereas, Mac does everything his own way. Mac wants nothing more in

the world than to watch the world series, Nurse Ratched will not allow

such a distracting activity in her wa

shock therapy he is strapped onto a crosslike structure and even

knows his own demise. Both Mac and Luke were deceived by one of their

characters both relive the characters of Jesus. On the fishing trip, Mac is

he won his bet that he could make the nurse lose her composure in a

Jesus being crucified. also on his picture of him with two girls, it is

Luke and Mac face a better fate than they would have had without

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