McMurphy
I do not believe that McMurphy was suffering from a mental disorder when he was first admitted to the mental hospital. Actually, he was quite clever in escaping farm work duty and jail. By going to the mental hospital, he thought he would be able to relax for awhile and then be released. McMurphy acted as if he was suffering from a mental disorder at the beginning so ensure that he would be admitted and fit in with the others. Throughout the course of his stay there, McMurphy does begin to suffer from mental problems, and it almost seemed as if he was actually mentally ill all along. He is given many opportunities to escape from the hospital when the women sneak in one night, but he refuses to leave. However, this may be due to the treatment forced upon him by Nurse Ratched. It is almost like the hospital made him go insane. It seems like the hospital doesn’t really know what it’s doing. Nurse Ratched conditioned McMurphy to act in a particular way and she knows all of his weaknesses. This eventually leads to McMurphy’s lobotomy. McMurphy ends up becoming more like the patients there, as the patients become more like him, and can stand up for themselves.
I never eally thought of it like that, but now that i have read your post i can see exactly where you are coming from. Good post!
↓ Quote | Posted December 9, 2006, 10:01 pm