In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I believe that Nurse Ratchet represents something of totalitarianism but she controls everyone not through violence or threats, but she rather remains calm but enforces things the way she wants. Nurse Ratchet is the perfect villain for a plot revolving around an insane asylum since none of the people in it will ever stand up to her. That is until RPM comes along. RPM in my mind, represents a bridge between insanity and absolute genius. He has complete cognition of Nurse Ratchet's actions and why he does them, so he is able to easily find ways to get around them, which no one else in that institute would ever do. Throughout the story, it seems like RPM starts to control the people in order to show that Nurse Ratchet does not have full power.
Now, a symbol we find in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the glass that separates Nurse Ratchet from RPM and the others in the institute. Somewhere around halfway through the movie, RPM shatters that glass in order to get a pack of cigarettes for another guy. This is very important, since that glass was like a divider in a hierarchy; a separation of power between Nurse Ratchet and the others. RPM was the first to step up and make a move like that. The whole movie is just their fight for power, and RPM's fight to escape the insane asylum.
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