ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST In the hospital, several male mental patients are under the domination of nurse ratched a former army nurse who rules her place with an attitude. Ratched is a harsh female with a s...

Transformation: Randle McMurphy & Patients He waltzed into the ward and introduced himself to every patient as a gambling man with a zest for women and cards. Randle P. McMurphy, a swaggering, gambling, boisterous redheaded con man, arrived at the ward from the Pendleton Work Farm. He was sen...

Chief Bromden, the half-Indian narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has been a patient in an Oregon psychiatric hospital for fifteen years. During this time, he has pretended to be deaf and dumb. When he was a child, three government officials came to see his father about buying the tribe's ...

The readers are first introduced to Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel who has been in the mental hospital for fifteen years. As a "Chronic", a type of patient that cannot be cured, the half Columbia Indian pretended to be deaf and dumb with much success. In the hospital the patients are unde...

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Option 5 - How can the novel be said to be about power and control? Power and control are the central ideas of Ken Kesey's 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'. There are examples of physical, authoritative and mechanical pow...