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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nurse Ratched
Personification of the Combine
Name: Ratchet: tool.
Character: "smooth, calculated and precision made", like a machine.
Adjust patients into place.
The Patients
De-humanization
Disorder -> Order
"Chronics are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years (...)".
Bromden's dream: "The worker takes the scalpel and slices up the front of old Blastic with a clean swing and the old man stops thrashing around. I except to be sick, but there's no blood or innards falling out like I was looking to see - just a shower of rust and ashes, and now and again a piece of wire or glass." (pg. 79).
McMurphy: Lobotomy: final step to deal with malfunction.
Machinery vs Nature:
Order vs Wild
Human element completely lacking: robotic product.
Control by de-sexualization.
eg. Nurse Ratchet's undeniable human feature.
McMurphy's attack.
The Combine
Catalina Saini
Conclusion
"Machine" Imagery
Society as precision-machine ran to mow down the 'individual' and create uniformity.
Ward as microcosm: factory for The Combine:
"It’s for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches (...)"
Then, the "completed product goes back out into society, all fixed up good as new (...)" (pg. 40).
Criticism to institutions.
Novel as shout-out for individuality.