Kersey Prompt
Conflicts are one of the best ways to keep the readed interested while reading a novel. In Kesey’s novel there are a lot of conflicts that can be identified. The hospital and nurses cause conflicts throughout the novel. The nurses of the mental hospital had complete control over every aspect of the hospital and the patients that were residing there. The patients were trapped in the hospital to be tortured and put through painful suffering. They would do some of the most gruesome things to the patients like electrocuting them and tying them down with restraints at night time. The patients minds are tortured also. For example, Ratched one of the nurses uses mind games on the patients to find there weaknesses. Ratched even uses guilt and black mail to the point that the one of the patients even kills himself in fear that his mother will be told about the hooker he brought home. This is a ideal example to show that the staff does not care about the patients at all. The nurses have complete control of everything that goes on with the patients making the patients realize that they must obey them. This isn’t as true for McMurphy and he even tries to strangle Ratched, but is unsuccessful. I feel that this is okay because of all the terrible things that Ratched has done to the patients. Even though it resulted in his own death at least he stood up for what is right. No one should have to deal with the agony that the patients of the hospital dealt with. His violence could have shown the other patients that they too need to stand up for themselves or nothing will ever change. Even though he used violence he wanted to make it so he did not have to deal with the hospital anymore.