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happening by once again using what can only be considered as a form of propaganda to

discourage the other patients from signing up for the trip. Her news clippings and bad

weather reports distress most of the patients, but not enough to warrant cancelling the

trip.

As punishment for “unspeakable behaviour concerning house duties”, Nurse Ratched

decides it best to remove one of the priviledges enjoyed by the patients. She takes away

the patients right to use the tub room, set up by McMurphy, for their card games.

Everyone expects this to be the Big Nurse?s final victory over McMurphy, as there is

nothing he can do about it. McMurphy then proceeds to smash the Nurse Station window,

claiming he was reaching for a pack of cigarettes and didn?t notice the glass, clean as it

was. Once again this is the typical kind of tactic McMurphy uses thoughout the book to

win his differences against Nurse Ratched. While McMurphy?s actions often do not

change the issue at hand, and can even make things worse, it is still acknowledged by

everyone that is is the ultimate victor over Nurse Ratched. Once again, this relates to the

Hemingway quote.

Perhaps the most literal example of Hemingway?s words in One Flew Over The Cuckoo?s

Nest is when McMurphy is lobotomized, following a physical assault on Nurse Ratched.

While she did truly destroy him this time, he was never defeated. His legacy lived on in the

lives he touched, and changed. Many of the Acutes left soon after the party or when

McMurphy was lobotomized. McMurphy had given them what no doctor, nurse, or

psychologist could – he had given them the taste of a normal life. He had made them feel

like real people, not waste products of society. This is what gave them the courage and the

inspiration to finally face the outside world, and carry on with a normal life. Kesey portays

this brilliantly, and as readers we feel as inspired as the paitents themselves. While

McMurphy may have been destroyed, his victory was of a grand scale indeed.

?She?s got the fog machine switched on?and the more I think about how nothing can be

helped, the faster the fog rolls in,? (Kesey 101?And then off down the slope I see them,

other hands coming up out of

the fog. It?s like?that big red hand of McMurphy?s is reaching into the

fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dragging

them blinking into the open,? (124).?His relaxed, good-natured voice dolled out his life

for us to live, a rollicking past?for all of us to dream ourselves into,? (218). “I’ve

watched her get more skillful over the years. Practice has steadied and strengthened her

until she wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hair-like wires, too small

for anybody’s eye but mine; I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful

robot, tend her network with mechanical skill, know every second which wire runs where

and just what current to send up to get the results she wants”

“First Charles Cheswick and now William Bibbit! I hope you’re finally satisfied. Playing

with human lives-gambling with human lives-as if you thought yourself to be God!”

“No one’s ever dared to come out and say it before, but there’s not a man among us that

doesn’t think it. That doesn’t feel just as you do about her and the whole business-feel it

somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.”

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