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Antisocial Behavior in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest I. Diagnosis of Randal McMurpy. A. Character assessment of Randal McMurpy played by Jack Nicholson in the movie. B. Description of Antisocial behavior. II. How it affects those around them III. What is the treatment (if any) is there for this disease. A. Is it treatable? B. What medications are prescribed, if any? C. What kind of aftercare treatment is available? Treatment The main character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, is brought to a state mental institution from a state prison to be studied to see if he has a mental illness. McMurphy has a history of serving time in prison for assault, and seems to take no responsibility for his actions. McMurphy is very outgoing, loud, rugged, a leader, and a rebel. McMurphy also seems to get pleasure out of fighting the system. McMurphy relishes in challenging the authority of Nurse Ratchett who seems to have a strong hold over the other patients in the ward. He enters into a power struggle with Nurse Ratchett when he finds out that he cannot leave the hospital until the staff, which primarily means her, considers him cured. As he tries to conform to the ways of the hospital, he actually becomes more like the patients that he detests. In one last attempt to escape from the hospital, McMurphy uses his cunning wit and skills as a con man to persuade the orderly into opening a window to allow two women into the ward. As the nigh progresses and he has the perfect opportunity to flee he realizes the hospital is the only safe place to stay. Due to Randal McMurphy rebellious ways and non-conformist ideas, the hospital performs a lobotomy, which during the time of this movie, w... ... middle of paper ... ...In this specific style, the therapist tends to have the most success in gaining knowledge of the patients feelings of inadequacy, fear of intimacy, and low self esteem. Group therapy is a setting among other antisocial personalities. This style allows the patient a different type of incentive to improve some of their disorders. Lastly, there is family therapy, and in my opinion the most important. This is essential for both the patient and members of their family to understand and learn how to cope with this behavior. This style of therapy will teach family members not to be co-dependent and allow the patient to take responsibility for their actions. Works Cited http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/personality_disorders/site/anti-social_personality_disorder.htm http://www.mentalhealth.com/rx/p23-pe04.html#Head_1
Nurse Ratched is portrayed as the authority figure in the hospital. The patients see no choice but to follow her regulations that she had laid down for them. Nurse Ratched's appearance is strong and cold. She has womanly features, but hides them “Her Face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive… A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing putting those big, womanly breasts on what would have otherwise been a prefect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it.” (11) She kept control over the ward without weakness, until McMurphy came. When McMurphy is introduced into the novel he is laughing a lot, and talking with the patients in the ward, he does not seem intimidated by Miss Ratched. McMurphy constantly challenges the control of Nurse Ratched, while she tries to show she remains in control, He succeeds in some ways and lo...
Violent scenes always have an important meaning in literary works. They could serve different purposes that either benefit or harm the characters. Often times it serves as both as it usually benefit the good ones and harms the enemy. Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, shows various scenes of violence from McMurphy toward Nurse Ratched, depicting how McMurphy often breaks her control and gives the other inmates a sense of freedom.
What is the deciding factor in determining what is sane: what is natural, or what is socially acceptable? In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and later the movie the novel inspired, this conflict is ever present in its Oregon setting of a psychiatric hospital. Throughout the novel, characters with minor quirks and disabilities are shamed and manipulated by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched in an attempt to make them “normal”—that is, conforming to her rigid standards. In fact, the only time these characters overcome their personal challenges is when they are emboldened by the confidence of an outsider, McMurphy, who encourages embracing natural instincts and rejecting conformity. In one particularly apt scene, McMurphy’s recounting
Violence and death surrounds everyone, from movies to books to news. These subjects are particularly prevalent in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Kesey's main goal for writing the novel was to show his readers the atrocities within mental health wards. However, he managed to have a greater impact in young adults' lives than ever imagined. Although there are instances of death and violence in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, it should be included in high school curriculum because exposure to these topics helps teenagers to properly deal with similar situations in their own lives.
He was a character that manipulated everyone at the ward to his advantage from the Nurse Rached to The Old Sea Captain and not forgetting the patients. Randle McMurphy was a protagonist who messed up the ward system and with it gave it humor, manipulative skills and an interest to the
Knowing all of that, McMurphy's attempts are doomed to failure from the outset. His failure is coded in his character: he wants to live free or die if that's not possible. The conflict between that insoluble idealism and the entrenched realities personified in Nurse Ratched is resolved in a manner rife with subtlety yet ultimately not ambiguous: in his meteoric progression toward his self-destruction, McMurphy nonetheless triumphs by inspiring the caged cuckoos to rediscover their freedom.
Throughout Kesey's novel, his character McMurphy voluntarily becomes a sort of role model to nurse Ratched’s ward. Furthermore, McMurphy brought about long overdue change to the ward; change that lead the other patients to realizing what more there is than just conforming to the nurse’s ideas of how the ward should be run. Additionally, the patients had lost the majority of who they were before being admitted. “Puppets,”(pg 37) being someone they are not, someone controlled by fear and consequences. Ultimately, the men are shambles of their former selves before McMurphy rescues them. Moreover, McMurphy doesn’t solely change the ward, but rather the people within it. Taking responsibility for the others places him liable for Cheswick’s unfortunate
In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Randal McMurphy and the patients in the ward are defined as mentally ill individuals. McMurphy, the main character, is a red-haired, wild American of Irish descent. He is a formal United States Marine with brawling, gambling, and deceiving in his carnal nature. He may have power over the rest of the patients, but the power of others, especially Nurse Ratched or "Big Nurse," control his life and others in the ward as
Randle McMurphy is the main protagonist in the movie. McMurphy severed a short sentence on a prison farm for battery and statutory rape. He is moved to a mental institution but he is not really mentally ill because he hopes to avoid hard labor. The ward is run by the strict nurse named Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched is the type of character that subdues the actions of her patients through an orderly passive-aggressive way and she is intimidating towards her patients.
When McMurphy is first introduced in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest he is shown to be a charismatic, witty, and rebellious character who has only come to the Ward to avoid doing more work on the ranch and to con the patients there. However, his personality and courage soon acts as a beacon of hope for the other patients on the Ward who look up to him. After Cheswick’s death, McMurphy starts an all-out war against Nurse Ratched and her control of the Ward, first breaking the Nurse’s window, then taking the acutes on a fishing trip and finally by attacking Big Nurse.
Due to Nurse Ratched’s complete dominance and perfunctory routine, the patients exhibit inhumane behaviors and act like animals who get “sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin’ at it... till they rip the chicken to shreds’ (Kesey 57). However, McMurphy’s decision attempt to lift the control panel gives the other patients in the ward the courage to attempt the impossible. In the novel, McMurphy wants other patients to participate in a vote that will allow them access to the tv to watch the World Series. When he demands a revote from Nurse Ratched, the McMurphy is able to help the patients stand up for themselves by going “into the fog... dragging them blinking into the open” (Kesey 140). By trying to lift the control panel even when he knows he cannot, McMurphy inspires the other patients in the ward to take risks. He is also able to connect the patients back to their humanity and courage, which allows them to recognize that they deserve proper treatment in order to get better. McMurphy shows the patients that they have the power to fight and make their own
At one point McMurphy talked to a nurse and they both agreed to get rid of single army nurses do to the way they treated the men (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Nurse Ratched had three black men that would clean up the ward and she even manipulated them, which caused them to take their anger out on the men and teased them. They would use their mental illness against them such as “confused thinking, depression, strong feelings of anger or sadness, social withdrawal…” (Mental Health America) tormenting them to make their problems worse. Ironically the doctor was even manipulated in some sorts by having the nurse always putting words in his mouth. Although other times he did not stand for it and ignored what she had to
Randle McMurphy is in a constant battle within himself, he is portrayed as a sociopath. He does not base his actions off of whether they will affect those around him, instead does as he pleases. His actions are based off of what is best for himself. McMurphy was first introduced as a savior to the ward, He soon uses the patients for his own benefit, the patients look up to him as one of their new proclaimed leader. McMurphy inspires hope into them and make them want to stand up for themselves. This give
He waltzed into the ward and introduced himself to every patient as a gambling man with a zest for women and cards. Randle P. McMurphy, a swaggering, gambling, boisterous redheaded con man, arrived at the ward from the Pendleton Work Farm. He was sentenced to six months at the prison work farm, but pretended to be insane in order to obtain a transfer to the hospital because he thought it would be more comfortable than the work farm. Bromden senses that there was something different about this new patient. After his first experience with the excruciating routine of the Group Meeting, McMurphy tells the patients that Nurse Ratchet is a genuine “ball-cutter.” The other patients tell him that there is no defying Nurse Ratched because, in their eyes, she is an all-powerful force. True to his nature as a gambling man, McMurphy makes a bet with the other patients that he can make Ratched lose her temper.
...and abandonment but as the patients find their individuality, hints of color become integrated into the film. In their final stand against Nurse Ratched, McMurphy throws a colorful party in the ward. This shows the patients the pure exuberance life has to offer. A transfer of power is symbolized in her white cap being passed around and dirtied. In their final battle for control, Nurse Ratched gets her final revenge over McMurphy. By conducting a lobotomy, Nurse Ratched separates McMurphy from his mechanism of choice, free will and control. Though mind and body are in tact, without spirit and will the man is nothing. Ultimately, McMurphy sacrifices himself for the good of the others. Chief frees McMurphy and himself by smothering McMurphy’s vegetative body and escaping the institution with his memory. The patients live on inspired by the spirit of his rebellion.