Everything that we encounter is not always as it seems. It could be a person that is nice to your face and then talks behind your back, a flower that looks pretty and colorful but is actually poisonous, or a fluffy, cute animal that is actually deadly. This is also true in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. While the ward is portrayed in one way to the world, there are a lot of things happening beneath the surface. Let’s see what some of those things are.
Reader #1-There are a lot of main events in part 1 of this book, the first one is the arrival of Mcmurphy. He changed the way the ward works, switched the way things are controlled and he brought laughter into the ward. Another one is Mcmurphy’s first meeting when Pete Bancini got angry in the meeting and threw on of the black boys against the wall. Also one more big event is when Mcmurphy makes a bet with the acutes that he can get inside Nurse Ratched’s head without being sent away he said “I can get the best of that woman---before the week’s up---without her getting the best of me(Kesey 73). Some important characters are Chief Bromden, Mcmurphy, Nurse Ratched, Harding, Bibbit, the Doctor. What is odd about the setting is how controlled it is, Big Nurse has every single aspect of it in the power of her hands. She needs everything to be flowing smoothly but it almost seems like she doesn't want anyone to get out. That she enjoys controlling them so much that she makes it almost impossible for them to improve. We know that the ward is like a train that goes the exact same route every day, never changing, until Mcmurphy comes. Everything is not as is seems, Chief sees the ward as a big lie. They lure patients in thinking it’s a democracy, but it is far from it.
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Kiara
11/28/2015 05:57:45 pm
(In Response to Reader #1) I agree the environment is excessively controlled. When there are visitors, the ward is made to seem like a symbol of progression in asylums everywhere in terms of how barbaric they "were". What really goes on inside is a manipulative cycle controlled by mainly one person. Nurse Ratched would like that every patient become wheelchair chronics so that she could have her idea of perfect control.
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Christian Pishotta
11/30/2015 08:45:58 am
I agree with reader #1 on how the ward seems to be nothing but a big lie. And i like how you are giving examples and such throughout your post. But This seems to be jumping around from point to point and its a little strange seeing how it's worded.
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Hanna Smith
11/30/2015 10:45:28 am
I agree with reader #1 because Nurse Ratched has shown over the course of the book that she doesn't really want anyone to leave the ward. It might be her constant hunger for control, but something is definitely strange with her because she's supposed to be helping the patients get better. Not make them feel like they never will as long as she's in charge.
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Ryan Franicevic
12/1/2015 10:25:40 am
I agree that the ward is over controlling, like our government is today. It seems like a big lie compared to what they tell people taking tours of the place. Nurse ratched is some sort of Stalin when she runs the ward. even when the group of them vote to watch the baseball game and win by majority. The nurse still doesn't let them watch it. A small rebellion occurs not for the baseball game, but against her the ward and everything controlling them.
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shannon heraty
12/3/2015 09:49:22 am
i agree with reader 1 that the nurse loves to controll the patients. and that the ward was never changing untill McMurphy came then it started too
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