How to: Escape a Combine Harvester One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey explores the tendency of humans to conform to ideals proposed by popular society. The participants in this society process their new members, shunning those who deviate from the norm. Ken Kesey uses the image of a combine harvester to symbolize the organized way society classifies its inhabitants. As a person excluded from society, Chief Bromden feels pressured by the representatives of society who try to ‘fix’ him
a battle between McMurphy and the nurse, McMurphy trying to set the patients free and the nurse trying to make them “normal”. The most obvious hero type of McMurphy is an out-law hero. This is evident in his struggle against the nurse and the combine which represent society. He is an outlaw because he is his own person. He has freedom to act how he wants, think what he wants and be what he wants, and society is out to make him be like everyone else, to conform. At first, McMurphy’s rebellion
perceptions as it provides insight to why Bromden resents the Combine, a metaphor he uses for society. For example, in one of his nightmares caused by a lack of medication, he imagines something “like the inside of a tremendous dam … [with] motors and dynamos red and coal black” (P87). What Bromden is visualizing is most likely what he envisions the Combine to look like because before, in numerous occasions, he described anything related to the Combine with mechanical aspects. However, unlike before, this
destroyed by its mechanical properties. Jerry and McMurphy were both different, they never fit in with others around them. In the end Jerry and McMurphy paid ultimate the price. If you disturb the way society works you must face the consequences. The combine wants everyone to fit in and play a specific part. Power figures like Nurse Ratched are there to enforce the rules. Society could stop this destruction but taking a stand against the machine is difficult when done alone. In conclusion the destructive
opted to bring in combine harvesters to increase the speed at which they could harvest, making it easier for them to double crop. These new technologies may seem economically beneficial to all if viewed by the untrained observer. However, those who benefited were few. These new developments only benefited the wealthiest in society, consequently leaving the poor even poorer for many reasons. More than anything the combine harvesters led to the increased troubles of Sedaka’s poor. “Combine harvesting has
of science and technology, with animal traction harvester was replaced by the combine harvester of powered by gasoline engine, played a huge role in agricultural production. Modern combine harvester is using air conditioning and shockproof, prevent noise cab, hydraulic control and electronic monitoring and automatic control devices, etc. In 1974, the world has been program control, automatic, unmanned prototype. Combine harvester will increasingly towards automation and adaptable aspect development
Through the use of feminine and masculine symbols, Kesey explores the masculinity versus femininity and the civilising influences that it has on the patients of the ward. Ratched a former army nurse, represents ‘The Combine’, the oppressive mechanization, dehumanization, and emasculation of modern society where the women are portrayed as ‘wolves’, ‘sly and elusive’ whilst the men as the ‘frightened rabbits’ their prey. Although known to show her ‘hideous self’ in front of the Bromden and the aides
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Weakening the Combine in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest When norms of society are unfair and seem set in stone, rebellion is bound to occur, ultimately bringing about change in the community. Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest demonstrates the conflict of individuals who have to survive in an environment where they are pressured to cooperate. The hospital's atmosphere suppresses the patients' individuality through authority figures that mold the patients into their visions of perfection
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equality to some degree? In Ridley Scott’s film, G.I. Jane, the United States Navy is facing political pressure to integrate women into those occupations previously unavailable to females. Lieutenant (LT) Jordan O’Neill is chosen to serve in the Navy Combines Reconnaissance Team (a fictional special
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understanding of the novel’s images, the division of people, and power struggles. During the lecture of the novel, there is an image which runs through various times, which is the Combine. Using a Marxist lens this image can be interpreted as a symbol of capitalism. In the eyes of the novel’s narrator, Bromden the Combine is contemplated to be a repressive machine. Chief Bromden sees the ward as “ a factory for
could be the protagonist, Ken Kesey shows that the victims of ward can rise up against a secular power, which is perceived as “the combine” but is also personified as Nurse Ratched,regardless of how helpless they may look. Ken Kesey uses
process of rebuilding their government. The United States is pushing their conformity on these nations that are refusing to follow their demands. In Kesey's, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there is conflict between the different levels of the Combine due to nonconformists that parallels the present situation that the United States is presently in. The machines of Chief's fantasies dominate the images of Kesey's novel. In the book, Chief describes Nurse Ratched as the following, "Under her
despite McMurphy’s initial gusto towards defiance in the beginning of the novel, he finds that Nurse Ratched “controls” all facets of the Combine”, including the release dates of committed patients and is disheartened in his cause (156, 140). With the use of the metaphor of a combine to represent the ward, Kesey illustrates the effect it has on the patients. A combine harvests grain crops. It reaps, threshes, and winnows the crops, leaving behind the dried stems and leaves containing limited nutrients
they condemned. Kesey did this to characterize the condemnation of a martyr who needed to free the others. The Combine needed another gear to fill the empty spaces left behind by the freed patients, so Kesey personified McMurphy as the gear to fit those slots. Nurse Ratched had taken McMurphy away for several weeks and when he returned, he had been stripped of his spirit and the Combine had fit him into its mechanical devices, “The black boys wheeled in this gurney with a chart…that said in heavy
way he is being quiet because of how the Americans treated him and his father. The word “thick” refers to a bulky or heavy object, in this case the bulky object refers to the Combine. The Combine is an imagination figure of a hospital filled with people like Bromden and he thinks that people like him need to go into the Combine in order to come out fixed. Kesey makes it so Bromden can only “see” and hear, which lets Bromden to hallucinate because through his eyes he sees the fog; the fog shows how
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Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a story about a band of patients in a mental ward who struggle to find their identity and get away from the wretched Nurse. As audiences read about the tale, many common events and items seen throughout the story actually represent symbols for the bigger themes of the story. Symbols like the fishing trip, Nurse, and electroshock therapy all emphasize the bigger themes of the story. The biggest theme of the story is oppression. Throughout the