One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

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reflects on how the Combine is taking over. The Big Nurse is never happy unless there is complete order in her ward. She often holds group meetings, in which she belittles her patients to where they are merely rabbits, and not men. Often, when a patient would act inflammatory, she would place him in Disturbed. There was always the threat of Electro-shock therapy, and even lobotomy. The only way to get out of the ward was if you gave up your personality and conformed to her rules. Most of the patients who are in the ward were forced there because of the oppression they faced outside of the hospital. Chief Bromden’s father was the chief of his village. The government was trying to push him off his land, and although he tried to maintain his way of life, his people were being bribed, and his wife would work on him too, until all he became was a drunk, inept man. Harding (another patient) committed himself because he couldn’t take society’s forefinger ...

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snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell motor pulling too big a load.”
Another theme is maintaining your humanity. The oppression the Big Nurse wields over the patients, shrinks them down until they’re no longer human. “No. You were right. You remember, it was you that drew our attention to the place where the nurse was concentrating her pecking? That was true. There’s not a man here that isn’t afraid he is losing or has already lost his whambam. We comical little creatures can’t even achieve the masculinity in the rabbit world, that’s how weal and inadequate ...

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