One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Quotes And Analysis
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1. Mr. Harding is an Acute. A very calm, level headed man. He bets with McMurphy that he can get the better of Big Nurse before she gets the best of him by the end of the week. Though he seems to be level headed, he ends up betting with McMurphy without realizing how easily he had been manipulated. He was clingy, self conscience. His wife got stares from other men and it made him upset and her breasts made him feel inferior. He doesn’t seem all the crazy.
2. The point of view is first person from Chief. Chief sits silently and listens to what goes on around him. “‘His n-n-name is Bromden. Chief Bromden. Everybody calls him Chief Buh-Broom, though, because the aides have him sweeping a l-large part of the time. There’s not m-much else he can…show more content… A. “The red-headed man sticks his hand out for Cheswick to shake” (Kesey, 12).
B. “McMurphy turned to the doctor and put the question straight to him this time before the nurse had a chance to answer. ‘Yeah, Doc, what about our cigarettes? How does she have the right to keep the cigarettes-our-cigarettes-piled up in her desk in there like she owned them, bleed a pack out to us now and again whenever she feels like it. I don’t care much about the idea of buying a carton of cigarettes and have somebody tell me where to smoke them’” (Kesey, 143).
C. “‘Crazy like a fox,” she said, “I believe that is what you’re trying to say about Mr. McMurphy’” (Kesey,…show more content… The setting is a mental hospital in the 1960’s. The hospital is described as white and spotted with feces and urine, no emotion is heard of until McMurphy is sent there. This is Big Nurse’s influence; it’s sad and quiet in the hospital day room most of the time. McMurphy comes in and there’s laughter.
7. McMurphy bribes Candy Starr, a prostitute with a heart of gold, to relieve Billy Bobbit of his virginity. She agrees and does so. After discovering Billy in bed with Candy Mrs. Ratchet comes down on Billy so hard that he commits suicide. She then goes to McMurphy and tells him that Billy is dead and he attacks her and is pulled off by guards. Mrs. Ratchet then proceeds to give McMurphy electro shock therapy and a lobotomy.
8. It kind of revealed how some mental hospitals were. How low staffed, unfunded, and disgusting they were in the 1960’s. This was a thing that was overlooked by the government and the state and it took them too long to realize what was going on in those institutions. A lot of patients would be abused by the staff; they’d be tested on and overlooked. Some hospitals were deemed inhospitable for people and were shut down. This was probably one of the things that made people realize what was going on in the hospitals and got them shut