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Psychological perspective of one flying over a cuckoos nest
Psychological perspective of one flying over a cuckoos nest
Analysis of One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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Structure and Plot One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is structured in chronological order. In the beginning of the movie McMurphy comes to the mental institution and is right away trying to bend the rules. He causes chaos throughout the institution from breaking out and stealing a bus to throwing parties and sneaking girls in. Nurse Ratched fought for McMurphy to stay in the institution and not send their problems to someone else, eventually leading to more stress and harm to her. McMurphy gains the trust of many of his institution mates, eventually getting them to reveal some secrets about themselves. With McMurphy ready to escape, the final set of chaos ensues between the patients. Premise In my opinion the premise of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is make the best of every situation you are given. In the beginning of the movie, McMurphy didn’t want to be at the mental institution, however over a series of time he started to warm up to the other guys there. McMurphy created special bonds with each of the guys, but the one that stuck out the most was Chief. Chief not being able to talk, or hear made all the guys make fun of him and call him dumb …show more content…
however, in a scene where the patients are all outside the men are playing a pick up game of basketball McMurphy is trying to teach Chief through motions and talking, even though he can’t hear. McMurphy tried to make the best of being at the mental institution many times including, when Nurse Ratched didn’t allow the patients to change the channel to the world series so, he did a play by play without even knowing what was going on with the game, and his friends ended up joining him and they had a blast. Characterization I believe the characterization in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is okay. Some of the characters like, Martini, Cheswick, and Harding are underdeveloped. Even though they were extras they still had a fairly big part and their stories were all over the place. They also didn’t have a great reason for being in the institution. We didn’t find out anything about these characters except, when Nurse Ratched was hammering the question of Harding’s wife cheating on him and what everyone thought about it. During these meetings that nurse Ratched held we didn’t find anything out about Martini, therefore the audience never truly got an understanding of who Martini was. There were many characters who could be classified as static or dynamic however, the characters that stick out to me as a static character is nurse Ratched. Throughout the whole movie she stayed to her normal routine, she didn’t like change and she enjoyed being in control. She had everything about the institution timed down to seconds and when McMurphy came in she kept being a stickler and continued to set the rules just how they were supposed to be. A dynamic character that sticks out is Chief. In the beginning of the movie people told McMurphy that he couldn’t talk or hear, however in the end of the movie the truth comes out that he actually could talk and hear, he was just scared. Also, at the beginning of the movie Chief did not want to leave and was acting dumb, however at the end he changed his mind and was okay with escaping. Acting/Dialogue I thoroughly enjoyed the acting and dialogue in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest it was very unique and well thought out. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest dialogue was believable because when the men were outside playing basketball, McMurphy was having normal conversations that normal people would be having and it wasn’t just to move the plot along or help the plot per say. This helped the movie because, it helped the audience relate to some of the conversations that the characters were having, and helped us understand where each of the characters were talking about when they were talking to eachother. Originality One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a very original movie. I especially thought a unique character was Billy. I have never seen another movie where the character stutters, does not socially know how to act, and is very unclear about his feelings. In the movie, Nurse Ratched talks to Billy in the meeting about how he proposed to a girl, even though he didn’t know her very well. However, the time he saw Candy he fell in love and wanted to be with her however, he was not able to talk to her because he was scared. So, the original part is that Billy was able to go so far as to propose to a girl, however was not able to talk to a girl. Surprises The element of surprise is something everyone wants in a movie and I thought One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest had well thought out surprises including, Chief being able to talk, and McMurphy staying many times even when he had a way and time out of the institution. Chief wasn’t able to talk until the end of the movie, and he felt the relationship with McMurphy was a close enough person in order to have the Chief confide in McMurphy and tell him the truth about how he had been lying. At the middle to end of the movie McMurphy had multiple chances to escape and go be free however, he did not. McMurphy had many times to escape, like jumping out the window and meeting Candy and her friend, however he did not. Any person who was stuck in that institution would have left and not looked back. Visual/Audio Presentation The overall visual presentation was for the most part well done. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest did very well with adjusting the shots so there wasn’t a bunch of the same shots in one scene. During the part where McMurphy was doing the play by play of the world series was a good visual scene because the camera angles showed us very different angles, one from Nurse Ratched’s view, one from up above, and one from the corner looking at the guys. However, a scene visually that I did not enjoy was at the end of the movie after McMurphy had his brain “surgery” I wanted to see more, there wasn’t very many angles shown and it felt kind of rushed. The soundtrack was good, it didn’t stick out, but it also wasn’t noticeable. There were a couple of scenes that should have had more music like, when McMurphy was about to leave and all the housemates went to check on Billy there needed to be sad music, it was just chaos. Scenes My overall favorite scene out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is at the end of the movie when Chief saw McMurphy come back into the sleeping room with the nurses. He gets up once the nurses leave and tells him it’s time to go, and he’s ready to run away. Once Chief sees that McMurphy is brain dead he makes a bold move in suffocating him to death, then running away by himself. I enjoyed this scene because, it makes you think, why would Chief kill the one person who he connected with and trusted? However, after thinking about it you come to realize he was actually doing McMurphy a favor because, Chief wanted McMurphy to be known as a hero in the other patients eyes. Chief also wanted to not have McMurphy be basically dead and obedient to Nurse Ratched since that is what the nurses wanted. McMurphy was always rebellious since coming into the institution and that’s how Chief wanted him to be remembered. Writing The writing of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was overall well done.
The movie flowed really well together and there was no scene that confused me. From beginning to end everything was explained, and acted out really well. The chronological order really played into the movie well and it helped not make the audience confused by cutting into other scenes. However, at the end of the movie I wish there was more, like what happened when everyone in the institution woke up, how did they react to McMurphy’s death and Chief escaping? What happened to Chief once he did escape? Overall My overall opinion on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is that it was a really good movie. I enjoyed every aspect of it. It was a very creative and unique storylines. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who wants a good
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In my opinion the main theme of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is conformity. The patients at this mental institution, or at least the one in the Big Nurse’s ward, find themselves on a rough situation where not following standards costs them many privileges being taken away. The standards that the Combine sets are what makes the patients so afraid of a change and simply conform hopelessly to what they have since anything out of the ordinary would get them in trouble. Such conformity is what Mc Murphy can not stand and makes him bring life back to the ward by fighting Miss Ratched and creating a new environment for the patients. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest represents a rebellion against the conformity implied in today’s society.
Chief Bromden, who is presumably deaf and dumb, narrates the story in third person. Mr. McMurphy enters the ward all smiles and hearty laughter as his own personal medicine. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a story about patients in a psychiatric hospital, who are under the power of Nurse Ratched. Mrs. Ratched has control over all the patients except for Mr. McMurphy, who uses laughter to fight her power. According to Chief Bromden, McMurphy "...knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy" (212). Laughter is McMurphy's medicine and tool to get him and the rest of the patients through their endless days at the hospital. The author's theme throughout the novel is that laughter is the best medicine, and he shows this through McMurphy's static character. The story is made up of series of conflicts between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. McMurphy becomes a hero, changing the lives of many of the inmates. In the end, though, he pays for his actions by suffering a lobotomy, which turned him into a vegetable. The story ends when Bromden smothers McMurphy with a pillow and escapes to freedom.
People often find themselves as part of a collective, following society's norms and may find oneself in places where feeling constrained by the rules and will act out to be unconstrained, as a result people are branded as nuisances or troublemakers. In the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, the author Ken Kesey conveys the attempt McMurphy makes to live unconstrained by the authority of Nurse Ratched. The story is very one sided and helps create an understanding for those troublemakers who are look down on in hopes of shifting ingrained ideals. The Significance of McMurphy's struggles lies in the importance placed on individuality and liberty. If McMurphy had not opposed fear and autocratic authority of Nurse Ratched nothing would have gotten better on the ward the men would still feel fear. and unnerved by a possibility of freedom. “...Then, just as she's rolling along at her biggest and meanest, McMurphy steps out of the latrine ... holding that towel around his hips-stops her dead! ” In the novel McMurphy shows little signs like this to combat thee Nurse. His defiance of her system included
So no matter how patriotic Clevingers tear filled speech was death is death and nobody wants that fate. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest McMurphy tries to make the outside world seem so good which is true to the reader because of the reader’s knowledge of the evil plans that Nurse Ratchet has in store. However, the characters are not mentally ready for the outside world. They have been locked up for so long in the "prison" that they could not handle the evils presented to them by other people. Nurse Ratchet has taken away their self-confidence and they can not deal with other people criticism. In the part of the novel when McMurphy takes them on a fishing trip, it is seen how fragile they are. In the bait shop they are torn down buy the loafers there and they really loose confidence. The prison has impacted them and will leave a permanent scar mentally.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden, also known as Chief Broom, a catatonic half-Indian man whom everybody thinks is deaf and dumb. He often suffers from hallucinations in which he feels that the room is filled with fog. The institution is dominated by Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse), a cold, precise woman with calculated gestures and a calm, mechanical manner. When the story begins, a new patient, Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives at the ward. He is a self-professed 'gambling fool' who has just come from a work farm at Pendleton. He introduces himself to the other men on the ward, including Dale Harding, the president of the patient's council, and Billy Bibbit, a thirty-year old man who stutters and appears very young. Nurse Ratched immediately pegs McMurphy as a manipulator.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a film directed by Czech Milos Forman in 1975. Using potent elements of fiction--characters, conflict, and symbolism--Forman illustrates the counterculture of the 1960’s. This film depicts American society as an insane asylum that demands conformity from its citizens. The film begins with a conniving convict being assigned to the asylum. R. P. McMurphy is sent to the asylum to be evaluated by the doctors and to determine whether or not he is mentally ill. He is unaware that he will be supervised by an emasculating woman named Nurse Mildred Ratched who watches the patients’ every motion from her nurse’s station.
...s control through power, authority, and fear. In the end, they believe they have control over the other, but they do not realize that they both have lost control until it is too late. They both pay a harsh penalty for their struggle to gain control over the ward. Nurse Ratched forever loses her precious power status and authority over the institution, while McMurphy loses the friends he tired to help, his personality, and eventually his life. Throughout the novel, these two characters relentlessly fight to control each other. They both realize that control can never be absolute. This idea does not occur to either of them until after they have lost everything they sought to control. This is what makes the element of control such an important theme in One Flew over the Cuckoo?s Nest.
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) The character McMurphy as played by Jack Nicholson, McMurphy’s is a criminal who is troubled and keeps being defiant. Instead of pleading guilty, McMurphy pleads insanity and then lands inside a mental hospital. Murphy reasons that being imprisoned within the hospital will be just as bad as being locked up in prison until he starts enjoying being within by messing around with other staff and patients. In the staff, McMurphy continuously irritates Nurse Ratched. You can see how it builds up to a control problem between the inmates and staff. Nurse Ratched is seen as the “institution” and it is McMurphy’s whole goal to rebel against that institution that she makes herself out to be.The other inmates view McMurphy like he is god. He gives the inmates reason to
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. The ward staff's ability to overpower the patients' free will is not questioned until a man named Randal McMurphy is committed to the mental institute. He rebels against what he perceives as a rigid, dehumanizing, and uncompassionate environment. His exposure of the flaws in the hospital's perfunctory rituals permits the other patients to form opinions and consequently their personalities surface. The patient's new behavior clashes with the medical personnel's main goal-to turn them into 'perfect' robots, creating havoc on the ward.
Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, is a novel containing the theme of emotions being played with in order to confine and change people. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is about a mental institution where a Nurse named Miss Ratched has total control over its patients. She uses her knowledge of the patients to strike fear in their minds. Chief Bromden a chronic who suffers from schizophrenia and pretends to be deaf and mute narrates the novel. From his perspective we see the rise and fall of a newly admitted patient, RP McMurphy. McMurphy used his knowledge and courage to bring changes in the ward. During his time period in the ward he sought to end the reign of the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched, also to bring the patients back on their feet. McMurphy issue with the ward and the patients on the ward can be better understood when you look at this novel through a psychoanalytic lens. By applying Daniel Goleman’s theory of emotional intelligence to McMurphy’s views, it is can be seen that his ideas can bring change in the patients and they can use their
In the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the audience is shown the character of Mc Murphy who brought out the conflict of authority, obedience, and disobedience. The film introduces Nurse Ratched as head of the ward and the main authority figure. What this essay will focus on is if Nurse Ratched really ever is negligent? She is simply just doing her job. Would Mcmurphy be considered to be the so-called “evil” character in the film? When he arrives he causes so much chaos between the patients and the nurses. Would the audience agree Mcmurphy is even responsible for a patient's death within the ward?
27 Jan. 2014. Kesey, Ken. A. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, a Novel. New York: Viking, 1962. Print.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
Fred Wright, Lauren's instructor for EN 132 (Life, Language, Literature), comments, "English 132 is an introduction to English studies, in which students learn about various areas in the discipline from linguistics to the study of popular culture. For the literature and literary criticism section of the course, students read a canonical work of literature and what scholars have said about the work over the years. This year, students read One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, a classic of American literature which dates from the 1960s counterculture. Popularized in a film version starring Jack Nicholson, which the class also watched in order to discuss film studies and adaptation, the novel became notable for its sympathetic portrayal of the mentally ill. For an essay about the novel, students were asked to choose a critical approach (such as feminist, formalist, psychological, and so forth) and interpret the novel using that approach, while also considering how their interpretation fit into the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the work. Lauren chose the challenge of applying a Marxist approach to One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Not only did she learn about critical approaches and how to apply one to a text, she wrote an excellent essay, which will help other readers understand the text better. In fact, if John Clark Pratt or another editor ever want to update the 1996 Viking Critical Library edition of the novel, then he or she might want to include Lauren's essay in the next edition!"
...r, this movie is lack of depth of storyline. The audiences can even predict what will happen in the next scenes. Moreover, the ending of this movie is too cheesy and irrational according to me. If only they change the ending to become more interesting and rational, I will give a four or five stars out of five. In spite of a lame twist ending, this movie is a perfect example to show that managers should be able to motivate and challenge their employee. It is important to remember that a happy employee means a productive employee.