al incapacity. This is to avoid imprisonment
             with rigorous labor. When McMurphy enters the "ward" he sees the
             whitewashed and antiseptic walls and the monotonous way in which
             therapyâ€"group and medicalâ€"proceeds. The leader of this therapy is Nurse
             Ratched. She wears a starched uniform. She rules the ward with an iron
             hand and a will that is masked by matronly tolerance. There are various
             other characters: Ellis and Ruckley who have undergone lobotomies and are
             in state of vegetation, Chief Bromden who has withdrawn into a fog-filled
             stoicism to mask his pain; Cheswick is lecherous, Martini hallucinates,
             Dale Harding is the persona of the conformistâ€"who has issues with his wife;
             and finally Billy Bibbitt, a chronic stutterer who has an overbearing
             McMurphy, right from the beginning disturbs the rel
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