Please write a 3 page essay in response to the following, two-part prompt:
How does Chief Bromden’s story in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest portray the psychiatric hospital as part of a larger social order that controls people and de-humanizes the individual by making him/her into a machine-like being? How does he present McMurphy as a figure of vitality, energy and non-conformity who resists the Combine’s controls and who helps to show the way for the other men on the ward to stand tall and re-discover their own inner-courage?
Essays must be emailed to me or put under my door by Friday, Dec. 18 @ 5pm. This is the final deadline for submission. In your response, you can think of the following:
Narrative voice: how the Chief’s hallucinations and paranoid fantasies might tell us something true about the hospital and the Combine that is otherwise hidden from sight: “it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
The novel’s treatment of social conformity and how it spreads like a contagion by means of fear, discipline, surveillance, manipulation, mild and fierce threats of punishment.
The characterization of the Big Nurse (Nurse Ratched) as a force of emasculation ( a “ball-cutter”) who works for the Combine. Ho ware other women portrayed as similar or different to her? How does she represent a manager of the cold, sterile and mechanized world of the Combine that seeks to take away people’s vitality/energy/libido/freedom.
The characterization of McMurphy as a “moving target” who cannot be put in his place by the Combine. How does he represent energy, sexual vitality, aggression, laughter and other emotional/impulsive/instinctual human qualities that mess-up the Combine’s world of order?
Think about McMurphy’s laughter, story-telling, and rebellious spirit. How, like a moving target, has he always stayed on the move and never been kept in place by the static confines of the Combine?
If the Combine is an example of too much social order/civilization, does McMurphy represent an older, more primitive human vitality? Is he a representative of the courage and heroism of the American frontier, where things weren’t locked in by social restraints? If so, is this a fully positive ideal of human freedom? Can we have a society of McMurphys, or is he just a refreshing contrast to the Combine? Does he represent something human (individualism, machismo, self-reliance, rebelliousness) that gets lost in a world like the Combine?
Does McMurphy’s vitality and impulsiveness express the unconscious instincts (desire, sex, aggression, laughter and other emotions) that have been entirely repressed on the ward and in the Combine?
How is he characterized as a free-wheeler and cowboy?
How is he characterized as a Christ-like figure by the Chief, who sees him as a redeemer of me?
Does the Chief have any ambiguous feelings about McMurphy? Do the other men share this?

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