Insane

Insanity is a common problem throughout the world where a person is born or becomes a person with features and actions that differ from the normal person. The definition of insanity is a person, “in a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction.” Most insane people are closely watched at all times to make sure they do not endanger themselves or the people around them. Insanity to the normal person could be interpreted as someone who does not act like a normal person with normal reactions; however, an insane person views the world differently than the average person does. Insane people think in a different way, which causes them to give off a strange appearance to the average person but to them, they think that the average person is crazy and that they are normal.

             Insanity is portrayed heavily in the movie, One Who Flew Over the Cookoo’s, the setting takes place at an insane asylum where the characters are almost in a jail but instead of being a prisoner they are treated with medication for there abstract insanity.  The main character, Randall Patrick McMurphy, is a character that is placed in an insane asylum for assaulting five men in his past and having sex with a fifteen year old, which is considered sachatory rape. Randall might not think he is insane and he might not look insane compared to the other patients in the asylum but the way he acts portrays his personality to be insane. For example, Randall wanted to watch the World Series and he stopped at nothing to make sure that the head nurse allowed him and his other insane friends watch the game. Randall stopped at no cost to watch the World Series, so during a therapy session he asked Nurse Rachet for there to be a vote if they could watch the game; however, the majority of the insane patients did not raise their hands. This led to Randall going crazy and wanting to break out of the asylum. Insanity is strongly influenced throughout the movie inside of the insane asylum.