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Essay / Character Analysis of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
When McMurphy experiences the mental hospital, she has to work harder to try to force the more difficult patients to conform to her. She continually endures McMurphy's tricks and finds that his orders do not allow her to control the patients. With no strength left to support herself, she soon recognizes that she should take McMurphy down. She completes this by using her beast power of being able to use the paralyzing drugs and ultimately uses a frontal lobotomy to get rid of McMurphy. The only thing she doesn't understand is that McMurphy has effectively left his imperfections in the ward and that his activities continue in every patient in the hospital. The patients became more human and less like rabbits under the wolf, Nurse Ratchet. She embarrassed patients by attacking their emotions, values and past actions. Her appalling behavior is when she incites the psychotic Billy Bibbit to commit suicide by playing on his apprehension of his mother, simply because she is afraid of losing control of the patients. Nurse Ratched set a very poor example of nursing roles and values in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The roles of nurses are those of caregiver, decision maker and communicator. However, Nurse Ratched did not show good examples of communication or as a caregiver..