... of matriarchy here." In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the author, Ken Kesey has put women into two opposite categories. They are alluded to mostly in a sexual context of either depriving the patients of their manhood or helping them assert it. Women like Nurse Ratched, the Chief's mother, Billy's mother, and Harding's wife are the representatives of the ... also has the Shock Shop to use in keeping the patients under control. Another weapon she has on her side is time. She tells her staff that McMurphy is an ordinary man and given time, he too will settle down like the othe...

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