Is McMurphy a Saint or a Sinner
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Throughout part one of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, McMurphy is introduced and his character unfolded to develop and generate a plot. The question that stands, however, is: "Is McMurphy a Saint, or a Sinner?"
Randal P. McMurphy is sent to the institution from the Pendleton Work Farm, and as soon as he's admitted, Mr. Bromden, the narrator of the story, can see "he's no ordinary admission." With an excessive gambling problem and admitted laziness, we start to realize this is in fact the case, and the staff on the ward begin to question weather he is in fact crazy, or if he's looking for an excuse to pardon himself from work.
Before McMurphy arrives on the ward, the head nurse, Miss Ratched, controls the patients using a strict routine. Miss Ratched, also referred to as "The Big Nurse", manipulates their actions and thoughts with the aid of 'therapeutic' meetingsin which she reminds everyone of their problems, patronizing them and shrewdly "rubbing their noses in their weaknesses until what little dignity they have left is gone and they shrink up to nothing from humiliation"an observation made by Randal. She surveys them whilst under constant supervision; until she is completely satisfied she understands them and is in complete control. She poses as the God of the wardmaking and having power over everyone and everything...