1. Combine- Nurse Ratched and other nurses control what occurs within the hospital. They try and re-adjust the patients to the world’s definition of a sane man.
a. When describing the hospital, Chief often describes a “machine” which is controlled by Nurse Ratched. She is a tough woman who is “precise, automatic… with everything working together. ” (5,6). Just as her hospital is a machine, she is the controller, who must shape her patients into society’s definition of a sane man.
b. The fog clouds Chief’s mind and makes him relive parts of his past. As the fog “clears” he gets better.
c. Nurse Ratched can control time to keep control within the ward. She can speed up time or slow it down.
2. 5). Ken Kesey develops his narrarator from the voice of an outsider, who has a skewed sense of reality. Chief is viewed as deaf, and …show more content…
Within the novel, laughter is a rare yet precious __ of the ward. The patients roam the halls of the institution looking to abide by the strict rules of Nurse Ratched, while under the influence of drugs given to them. Laughter is almost a medicine to these patients, to help them escape the reality of their situations. Randall McMurphy is the distributor of this medicine, and brings humanity back to his fellow patients. After arriving McMurphy is able to make the men laugh and Chief realizes “what laughter can do” () to remind these men that they too are human and not products of a machine
4. 11). In the novel, the cuckoo’s nest represents the mental hospital. The institution is place where patients, represented by birds, are confined to a stable life controlled by bigger birds, or nurses. The title represents how McMurphy is one who managed to not abide by ward rules and instead changes the lifestyle within the institution. He is the cuckoo who managed to fly over what was expected of the patients. The mention of geese within the novel, portrays the patients need to be as free, just as wandering geese who can fly “east” and