Freedom In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Freedom is the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.

Freedom represents something greater than just the right to act however citizens choose it also stands for securing to everyone an equal opportunity for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. According to society today, freedom means more than just free to do say and do anything you want. Taken literally, that approach would produce anarchy every man, woman, and child for himself or herself. Fortunately, none of us has to live that way. Freedom is the quality a person has with controls over his or her own life, and nobody can control them or tell that person what to do. Complete freedom is very hard to obtain in today’s society.

In the United States freedom of speech should be used more often. American citizens rarely use freedom of speech. Many people do not speak up for what they believe or think 7that’s right and it causes problems throughout the world. When people do not speak their mind, it can cause a problem. In other countries if a person speaks their mind he or she will be considered a threat to the government and will have to face the consequences.

The novel “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” portrayed the lack of freedom, which patients are locked up in a mental institution, but most of the patients chose to be there because they find freedom and safety. The nurses inside the mental institution keep the patients safe most of the time throughout the novel. Though many of the patients want to be in the mental institution, they still want to enjoy certain freedoms. Chief Says, ”I hide in the mop closet and listen, my heart beating in the dark, and I try to keep from getting scared, try to get my thoughts off someplace else try to think back and remember things about the village and the big Columbia River, think about one time Papa and me were hunting birds in a stand of cedar trees

I'm not sure it's one of those substitute machines and not a shaver till it gets to my temples; then I can't hold back. It's not a will-power thing any more when they get to my temples. It's a button, pushed, says Air Raid Air Raid, turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me, hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. My sound soaks up all other sound,” (1.121-23). Each morning shave throughout the novel, Chief is held captive and his freedom and self-determination is violated. ” First time for a long, long time I’m in bed without taking that little red capsule (if I hide to keep from taking it, the night nurse with the birthmark sends the black boy named Geever out to hunt me down, hold me captive with his flashlight till she can get the needle ready), so I fake sleep when the black boy’s coming past with his light. When you take one of those red pills you don’t just go to sleep; you’re paralyzed with sleep, and all night long you can’t wake, no matter what goes on around you. That’s why the staff gives me the pills; at