By doing so, McMurphy threatens Nurse Ratched's position in the combine. ... In addition, McMurphy contributes to the men's liberation through the deaths of Billy and Cheswick. ... Using Billy's death as a specific example, "there can be no restoration of the old order: her (Nurse Ratched) authority is lost as irrevocably as Billy's virginity" meaning that the death of a patient insinuates the loss of power over people (Lupack 91). ... Meeting McMurphy alters his view of himself and life. ... Argued in this essay, McMurphy ends the battle along with his life....

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Bibbit babies Billy and rules him completely which is why Billy kills himself when he knows his mom will find about Candy. ... He also has McMurphy mention that "ball-cutters" can be any age or gender. ... McMurphy calls her a "ball-cutter." ... McMurphy notices that, .the first thing that got to me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. ... Bibbit's absolute power over Billy is shown when Nurse Ratched, having caught Billy having sex with a prostitute, threatens to tell his mother. ...

• Word Count: 818
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• Grade Level: High School

A second person whom McMurphy affects is Billy Bibbit, the youngest patient on the ward. ... Billy is also afraid of the consequences of McMurphy's actions on the rest of the patients after McMurphy has gone. ... After Billy sleeps with a friend of McMurphy's, Miss Ratched says, "Billy, oh Billy, I"m so ashamed," in attempts to break Billy down and ruin his pride. However, thanks to McMurphy's influence on him Billy defiantly replies, "I"m not." Billy was once just a timid young man, but now thanks to McMurphy is a better man. ...

• Word Count: 1663
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• Grade Level: High School

Candy's role in the novel is to help Billy reach manhood. ... Although she defeats McMurphy, turning him into a vegetable, the Chief wins a victory against her power by killing McMurphy and escaping from the hospital and her control. In the novel, Nurse Ratched also becomes a surrogate mother to the Chief and to Billy; to Harding, she becomes a surrogate wife. ... Similarly, Billy Bibbit's mother treats him like an infant and does not allow him to develop sexually. Through sex with Candy, Billy briefly regains his confidence. ...

• Word Count: 825
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• Grade Level: High School

Billy bibbit is a stutterer who is in the ward. ... Later in the mourning big nurse finds billy with the whore. ... Big Nurse is to blame for Billy's death. ... She killed Billy and blamed it on McMurphy. ... Billy took her power and gave it to himself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A stuttering, paranoid thirty-year old child trapped in a man's body, Billy Bibbit. ... McMurphy moves Billy out of the way before attempting to do the lift. ... During the next therapy session, Nurse Ratched purposely presses Billy with questions about problems resulting from his mother. ... He jokes to Billy about the effectiveness of shock treatments that he received. One night McMurphy p...

• Word Count: 3006
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• Grade Level: High School

Critics sometimes refer to the lessons taught by McMurphy as McMurphy's gospel. ... Billy Bibbit can easily be compared to Jesus" disciple Judas. Just as Judas killed himself after committing a great sin (Matthew 27:4-5), Billy Bibbit also kills himself after he commits a great sin. In addition, Judas betrayed Jesus and pointed him out to the Roman government and Billy Bibbit told the Big Nurse about McMurphy's plans to escape. ... This quote blames McMurphy for Billy Bibbit's death and refers to McMurphy as God in the book. ...

• Word Count: 1795
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

McMurphy. ... An example of when conformity has a negative effect on growth is Billy Bibbit. Billy's constant stuttering throughout the film suggests that he is unsure of himself. ... Almost immediately, Nurse Ratched brings up the subject of his mother and Billy shuts down. ... The turning point for Billy is when McMurphy, for lack of a better term, gets him laid. ...

• Word Count: 1021
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• Grade Level: High School

Her power is expressed in very sexual terms: she is, McMurphy says after his first group meeting, "a ball-cutter." ... Bibbit has prevented Billy from becoming a functioning adult by preventing him from losing his virginity. ... McMurphy points out that Dale Harding treats his wife fully as badly as she treats him. ... And they suffer a variety of symptoms: Billy's stuttering, the Chief's apparent deaf-muteness, and Harding's uncontrollable hands. ... McMurphy on the other hand isn't necessarily insane. ...

• Word Count: 1132
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• Grade Level: High School

Kesey tells us that Nurse Ratched is an old acquaintance of Billy's mother. Billy is very unstable and cares about what is mother thinks about him, this gives Ratched an advantage over Billy because she knows that she can control Billy by threatening to tell hiss mother anything that he does. ... At the end of the novel when Billy is found with Candy in bed she tells Billy that she is going to have to tell his mother and Billy then slits his throat. ... It is Harding that tells us of this information when McMurphy is convincing him that Nurse Ratched is not there "Angel of mercy", "Doctor...

• Word Count: 955
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

McMurphy arranges a date for Billy Bibbit with a prostitute to enable Billy to become a man. ... They all plan an escape for McMurphy the night after the prostitute comes for Billy, but McMurphy is too weak to escape and is caught. Billy is shamed by Ratched and commits suicide. ... McMurphy shows him that he is strong. McMurphy knows Chief isn't dumb and deaf. ...

• Word Count: 960
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• Grade Level: High School

McMurphy arranges a date for Billy Bibbit with a prostitute to enable Billy to become a man. ... They all plan an escape for McMurphy the night after the prostitute comes for Billy, but McMurphy is too weak to escape and is caught. Billy is shamed by Ratched and commits suicide. ... McMurphy shows him that he is strong. McMurphy knows Chief isn't dumb and deaf. ...

• Word Count: 961
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• Grade Level: High School

Mac notices that young Billy Bibbit has an interest in one of the women and decides Meredith-4 to set them up for a night together. Nurse Ratched's arrival the next morning finds the ward in shambles and Billy in bed with the prostitute. She rekindles Billy's fear of his mother by suggesting she will be informed of Billy's night. She then forces Billy to confess that McMurphy was responsible for the party. In the final chaotic moments Billy commits suicide and McMurphy, blaming Nurse Ratched for his friend's untimely death, passes up a chance for escape, instead ...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the book Taber died before McMurphy ever came on the ward. ... Nurse Ratched makes Billy Bibbit feel guilty to the point where he kills himself. ... Then Nurse Ratched turns McMurphy into a vegetable by taking part of McMurphys" brain out. ... He misses the old McMurphy so he kills McMurphy. After Bromden kills McMurphy he escapes from the ward. ...

• Word Count: 678
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• Grade Level: High School

It wasn't until he established a relationship with McMurphy that he is able to break out of his quiet shell formed by the pressures of the institution. ... As he establishes a trusting relationship with McMurphy he doesn`t feel watched as closely. ... Billy is a kind man who has a problem with stuttering when he feels others are watching him. ... Because Billy stutters, that indicates to me that he feels the need to live up to the expectations that exist and in his mind. ... When McMurphy breaks the big nurse's glass that signifies that he is starting to break the hold the big nurse...

• Word Count: 945
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• Grade Level: High School

Billy Bibbit tells McMurphy that nothing he is doing will do any good in the future. ... A man named Cheswick who stood behind McMurphy died shows McMurphy his friends need him. The rest of the patients are attempting to help McMurphy escape but McMurphy wants to leave with permission. ... McMurphy was a man who liked to be in charge and not pushed around. ... This showed McMurphy was a very respectful and caring man. ...

• Word Count: 564
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• Grade Level: High School

During this fishing trip, McMurphy sets up a date between Billy Bibbit and Candy Starr. ... Billy Bibbit goes in the other room with Candy while McMurphy and the other men on the ward get drunk and smoke marijuana outside. ... She find out that Billy Bibbit is missing and begins to search for him. ... Billy is torn, worried, scared, and angry because he doesn't want Nurse Ratched to tell his mother. ... Sadly, Billy Bibbit then procedes to killing himelf. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To study this issue, I will focus on Nurse Ratched, Randle McMurphy and Billy Bibbit because I think that these characters represents the main symbols in the novel. ... "Oh Billy, a woman like this, a cheap, low, what worries me, Billy is how your poor mother is going to take this" In this moment is when Nurse Ratched uses Billy ´s mother to instill a sense of shame that she drives him to suicide, showing the cause of Billy ´s problems. ... When McMurphy arranges for the meeting between Candy and Billy, this emphasizes the theme of McMurphy as a sexual liberator. ... Another important mome...

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For instance, Billy Bibbit was still extremely attached to his mother at the age of thirty one. ... Another leader in society of One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is Randle McMurphy. Before McMurphy entered the mental ward, the patience were cowardly and depressed by the castrating Nurse Ratched. Nonetheless, McMurphy tries to help the patients rebel by affirming their sexuality and individuality. ... The voters are then Chief Bromben and the other patients as they could either choose between listening to Nurse Ratched or rebelling with McMurphy. ...

• Word Count: 385
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the novel when McMurphy first comes to the ward, he decides that he's going to take over, and he asks his fellow inmate Billy Bibbits" Who's the bull goose loony here?" ... After hearing this, Harding explains to McMurphy that all of the patients are like rabbits." ... McMurphy my friend I"m not a chicken, I"m a rabbit. ... Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. ... Kesey clearly portrays McMurphy as the traditional western hero. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Similar to Jesus, McMurphy treats the patients of the ward equally. ... Right from the beginning McMurphy challenged Big Nurse's methods. ... At the end McMurphy is betrayed by Billy Bibbit when he blames McMurphy for the party, to save himself from Nurse Ratched telling his mother that he slept with Candy. ... McMurphy's resemblance to Jesus is most perceptible in his death. ... Even after his death, McMurphy's resemblance to Jesus continues. ...

• Word Count: 789
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• Grade Level: High School

She also played with McMurphy's life, commanding that a lobotomy be performed on him. ... After Billy Bibbit slept with a whore, and the Big Nurse threatened to tell his mother, she was right there beside him to comfort him. ... McMurphy was comparable to Satan. ... McMurphy had the nurse crucified, just as Jesus was. ... The Big Nurse could not save herself from McMurphy either. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is then a battle between McMurphy and the nurse, McMurphy trying to set the patients free and the nurse trying to make them "normal". The most obvious hero type of McMurphy is an out-law hero. ... This is not who McMurphy is. ... McMurphy can also be considered a tragic hero. ... After Billy Bibbit killed himself, McMurphy attacked the nurse and tried to strangle her. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

McMurphy in one way or another. McMurphy's life begins in the novel as just a regular patient coming into the mental hospital. ... Billy, like Judas (Jesus" betrayer), is pressured into a situation where he has to choose between turning in McMurphy or avoid getting into trouble. ... McMurphy believed he was dying in order to "free" the other patients from Nurse Ratched's ic wrath. ... McMurphy realized what option they chose, but he still gave his only life for them. ...

• Word Count: 690
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School