One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

She believes he is a manipulator and will take over; disrupts for the sake of disrupting.

Why McMurphy would want to take over.

That she seemed to forget that the institution was for the insane.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nurse Ratched.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sort of group of controlling people who not only try to manipulate the ward (inside) and the world (outside).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wheelchair 'Chronics'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>If a doctor won't conform to her wishes, she makes him so miserable that he begs for a transfer out of her ward.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They need to hate enough, hate her enough, and be of black color; the darker their skin, the more likely they are to keep the ward spotlessly clean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first orderly she decided to keep had seen his mother raped while his father stood by, tied to the hot iron stove.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Boys get shaved; first are the Acutes, then the Chronics, and then the Wheelers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mess hall opens and they enter in reverse order.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They're back to the day room; designated locations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pushes a button.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The orderlies move down the line of Chronics to tape catheters on those who need them; catheter replacement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Big Nurse announces 'Medications.' The Acutes first, then the Chronics, then the Wheelers get their medicines. The Vegetables get theirs last.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are dealt a punishment; Mr. Taber asks and he spends the rest of his morning mopping latrines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chief once managed to keep one under his tongue, then crushed it to see what was inside. He saw it contained microscopic wires and grids, like the ones he helped the Radar Corps work with in the Army.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cards and puzzles come out.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two of the orderlies catch Taber in the latrine and take him to the mattress room. They push him face down onto the mattress. The nurse comes in with a long needle and they close the door.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Residents (young doctors) come in to talk to the Acutes about what they did when they were little boys; residents leave at 9:50am and Nurse Ratched breathes easily.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A gurney; the shock shop.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mail comes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At 10:30, Public Relations, the hospital employee responsible for public relations, comes in with a ladies' club following. He brings women on tours through the ward and then they have coffee with the nurses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As humming the way a cotton mill hums.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Chief comments on how all of the cotton fluff floating around makes it seem like he's seeing her through a fog on a duck-hunting trip.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Asks what he'd want with her, out alone in the woods in a duck blind. He answers that she could take care of his gun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A factory for the 'Combine' that deals with mistakes made out in society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An Admission will always need to be worked on to make him fit into the routine. A new Admit might foul everything up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chief reminds us that Big Nurse gets really peeved if anything keeps her operation from running smoothly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chief Bromden worked as an electrician's assistant in a training camp before the Army sent him to Germany.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Time always plays on Ratched's side and she could use time to punish the patients.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Flashbacks of clowns, black boys, medication, and football.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There should be no need for secrets among friends.</p> Signup and view all the answers