Power
Tonight I’ll be talking about one
flew over the cuckoo’s nest. Talking about McMurphy and nurse ratchet in
respect to their relationship between one other. How they struggle in their
race and fight for power for the other patients in the ward and the hospital in
general. Ill demonstrate this point by examples from the book itself and
connecting to world through the united states of American federal elections
that are currently under way. Sorry that I’m using this example again, it’s
just a really good example for the book and the dynamics between nurse ratchet
and McMurphy. As for a personal experience that i can also rumble about, I
guess I can reach way back to my cadet days and relate to the officers and the
power struggle between them to control the cadets and other lower ranking
officer in the squad.
As for the book that I’m sure you all read as some pretty good examples
of their power struggle, and I’m sure you got one or two of them in your head
right now. Yes the repeated breaking of the nurses’ station window, is the
clearest and best example of McMurphy threat or challenge to her power and the
power over the other patients. With ken Kelsey literally demonstrating nurse
ratchet almost un-see able control over all the patients and staff except McMurphy by a window. Then McMurphy breaking it showing his challenge to nurse
ratchets power, making a remark about how clear it was he almost! Didn't see it
there. Forcing her hand nurse ratchet has to back down and retreat, letting McMurphy
win this round instilling a false convenience allowing him to organize a
fishing trip that he, candy a hooker not an aunt!, the doctor and the other
patients go on. In conclusion ken Kelsey is setting McMurphy up for a beating
by the combine.
For my world example I’m a comparing Romney as ratchet minus the big
boobs and McMurphy as Obama without the red hair. Romney is weird backwards old
school republican aligning himself with the crazy rednecks of America or the “combine”
much like nurse ratchet in her was. Obama is a semi old school America but whose
trying to change and better America like McMurphy who is normal enough to to squeeze
by the combine all those years and now is trying to help the other patients in
his only weird way. Romney uses scare tactics to sway voters into changing their
minds like nurse ratchet uses her silence plus cold face and newspaper clipping
to scare the patients into changing their mind. Obama uses a much one laid back
approach but simply smooth talking his way in to votes like McMurphy smooth
talks the other patient into voting to watch the word series or going on the
fishing trip.
As for myself I guess back when I used to attend cadets I remember the
officers trying to persuade the cadets to join there group or event, in order
to get the go ahead their event or to rank first with their hand picked group. Some
would smooth talk you offering perks to you or your hard work others with scare
you into it saying that you might get to go at all or you might be out in the
last group and rushed through. I guess in the end we all want power to some
degree/or reason and use different ways to obtain it whether it through scaring
people or persuading them or even flat out manipulation.
