In the short time frame of the book, she destroys three men—two commit suicide and one is lobotomized. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a tribute to individualistic principles. Louise Fletcher. Who played Nurse Ratched? Estelle Louise Fletcher. Filming began in January , and concluded approximately three months later, and was shot on location in Salem, Oregon, and the surrounding area, as well as on the Oregon coast.
The producers decided to shoot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual mental hospital, as this was also the setting of the novel. Ken Kesey. McMurphy manages to ruffle Ratched because he plays her game: he picks up on her weak spots right away. He uses his overt sexuality to throw her off her machinelike track, and he is not taken in by her thin facade of compassion or her falsely therapeutic tactics.
When McMurphy rips her shirt open at the end of the novel, he symbolically exposes her hypocrisy and deceit, and she is never able to regain power. Why is Chief Bromden in the ward? Chief Bromden. Why is McMurphy in the ward?
That morning, Randle McMurphy is admitted into the mental ward. McMurphy introduces himself to the patients and tells them he was admitted into the mental hospital because of an incident at the work farm and the court labeled him as a psychopath because of his actions. How did Billy kill himself? Billy commits suicide by slashing his throat with some instruments he finds in a doctor's desk.
He kills himself because Nurse Ratched humiliates him and threatens him with his greatest fear - his mother's derision and disapproval - after she catches him with a prostitute. How does Chief Bromden explain the way Nurse Ratched runs the ward? Chief relates that Nurse Ratched runs the ward like a machine, and "gets real put out" if the machine isn't running smoothly.
He believes that she also spends some of her time making adjustments to the machinery of the world outside the hospital as well. What page does McMurphy break the glass? In chapter 23 McMurphy's action to put his fist through the glass window is premeditated.
His reaction to punching the window determines whether or not it was premeditated. Public Relation. A fat-faced, balding man who brings people in for tours of the insane asylum. He promotes the asylum and says how great it is. She begins as a scheming, manipulative agent of the Combine and remains so at the novel's conclusion. Her depiction resembles the villains of comic books and one-reel film serials in that she asserts arbitrary control simply because she can. Much of Ratched's character is evident in her name.
McMurphy pronounces it "Rat-shed" during an early section of the novel, indicating that she possesses rodent-like qualities of working quietly, quickly, and to the disadvantage of her victims. The reader is reminded that rats were the carriers of the Black Plague during the Middle Ages, and Ratched infects the hospital's orderlies, student nurses, public relations personnel, and patients with her irrational desire for order.
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