We’ve already established that Chief Bromden, because of his mental disability, sees the world differently. Let’s look a little more at how his mind works by examining his hallucination of the ward coming alive at night.
Reader #1-Chief Bromden is a patient that has schizophrenia and has constant and very strange hallucinations within the ward. One of these hallucinations happens when it’s night time in the ward and suddenly the bedroom became sorta like the inside of a dam with machines and faceless workers everywhere. Plus there were also many furnaces around the room as well as hooks that look like they’re in a butcher's warehouse. This scenario then moves along to the sleeping patients beginning to get strapped to a hook by the foot, starting with Blastic, and old vegetable in the ward. Blastic was flapping out his arms and free leg to get free but then he gets supposedly gutted from one of the workers with a scalpel and appears to be dead right after. Then Chief gets pulled out of the hallucination by an old negro man named Mr. Turkle who takes a late shift and begins to very carefully and gently “lift old Blastic onto the stretcher and carry him out, covered with a sheet-handle him more careful than anybody ever handled him before in all his life.” (Page 90) So the irony behind Chief’s hallucination is that Blastic was gutted dead, and he awakens to find doctors on the late shift carry Blastic’s corpse out of the ward. Reader #2-Chief Bromden hallucinates because of his medication they give him because of his medical problems. every time he takes his medication he sees fog drifting into the wards, the medication makes him hallucinate hard and makes him feel like he's in a different world or out of reality. He believes that the staff have hidden fog machines in the vents that make the patients hallucinate. Some reason the chief feels like it's a safe place for him because he can escape reality and feel himself. there's a character in the story that chief bromden sees but dies, but at the end of his hallucination he seen old blastic right in front of him alive. It had chief speechless and confused over what he seen and does during his hallucinations. Reader #3-In his hallucination Chief sees the vegetable Blastic being grabbed by the heels and being hung by his the tendon in his heels. The workers then proceed to cut him open, but there is no blood just rust and ash, and the occasional piece of wire and glass. The ironic part of this hallucination is that Blastic died that very night. Chief’s hallucination are a distortion of reality; like how he visualizes Nurse Ratched as a monster because of how powerful she is. This hallucination is significant because he visualizes the ward as a combine and the patients as machines, he sees the workers killing Blastic because of how they don't help the patients at all, they are just mean and abusive towards them.
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Ryan W.
11/19/2015 11:21:42 am
Reader #1 does a good job at explaining how Blastic's death was ironic. One thing I don't understand is how the meat hook ties into the hallucination. I'd like to know if there is a deeper meaning to this hook.
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