Mcmurphy

« In 1 950’s during the cold war, fear and horror fill the air in the society makes people hate changes.

In the novel, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, the author demonstrate the way society behaves when seeing a very different person through the use of characters as McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, who both act against of each other, McMurphy represents his personal freedom and free will in society, on the other hand, big nurse over-pressing and abuse that controlled people’s mind during that time.

In the novel, Nurse Ratched, the big nurse, is a woman of monotonous rule, strict and use her over-power to press the patients, was turned upside down by Randle Patrick McMurphy.

Once on the ward, McMurphy helps the men to truly express their-self and experience the feeling to be free and laugh as the way the y want, to embrace their masculinity and sexuality.

The above reasoning is the evidence of personal freedom and free will. McMurphy is a sign of personal freedom and the nature of free will in “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest”.

Since his arrival in the mental institution, the situation starts to change very quickly, he brings in gambling, laughter, profanity and he begins to get the other patients to be socialized and open.

He told them that they have to stand against the big nurse who is trying to press conformity, obeying authority and clashes their happiness.

He tells the men not to be "rabbits" that conform and allow the Big Nurse to manipulate them, but to stand up and make things happen.

“Jesus, I mean you guys do nothing but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out? What do you think you are for Christ sake, crazy or something? Well, you’re not! You’re not! You’re no crazier than the average asshole out walking around on the streets.” However McMurphy is the only one who can stand against the Big Nurse's oppressive supreme power.

It is a battle between the big nurse and McMurphy, he wants to set all the patients free and not controlled by others, do everything they want to do, but the big nurse are trying to make them normal by give them electrical shot and other cruel torture.

He is the evidence of personal freedom and the nature of free will because by being against the big nurse and by being outlaw, the author demonstrate that McMurphy has the freedom to think the way he wants and to act the way the like and be the person he wants to be, society and surrounding are out to make him be as other patient, to conform.

He wants the other patients become as free as him. He is evidence of the personal freedom and free will because at first McMurphy clearly wins the control battle over Nurse Ratched.

His influence and control over the patients is stronger than hers, thus believes that he has the right on the patients.

Soon he realizes that his victory is an illusion.

McMurphy then begins to fall in line with the others.

He does not speak up at any more meetings and does not cause any more problems for Nurse Ratched, who has regained her control.

She realized that she is once again the main influence in the patient’s life.

He realizes that he must regain control over the nurse and he must do this not just to spite her, but because no one else can be against her except him because they are too afraid of her.

McMurphy feels that if does not stand up for the other patients, they will never stand up for themselves and express their own opinion and have their own freedom, as a result, they will live the rest of their lives under Nurse Ratched’s control. Even though McMurphy's own sacrifice of life is the price of his victory, he still attempts to push the ward patients to express their own personal opinions and fight for what they think ethically right.

In effect, McMurphy has sacrificed his own sanity to. »