Trevor Krupp

12/15/14

Nurse Ratchet

Nurse Ratchet has the most power in the movie and constantly has arguments with some of the insane people in the “Cuckoo Nest”.  Nurse Ratchet doesn’t seem have much of a personality; she seems more like a robot. She seems to manipulate most of the people in the “Cuckoo Nest” except for Randall and maybe the chief. I think this because the people in the “Cuckoo Nest” hate it their and want to leave. She manipulates them so they feel like they cannot life in the outside world. Randall sees this and tells them they are as crazy as the people walking the town. I think that Nurse Ratchet represents a person who decides which people are insane or not.  I think Randall represents a sane man living in a insane asylum. He realizes the screwed up things they do to the patients. He constantly protests the ruling in the “Cuckoo Nest”. The first conflict is when the majority of the people voted to switch the schedule around and she did not change the schedule so they could watch baseball. I think baseball is a motif for freedom and that is why the Nurse doesn’t want them to watch it. This leads to Randall wanting to break out of the “Cuckoo Nest”. The other conflict is when he doesn’t want to eat the medicine. The nurse did not answer the question of what pill she was giving him so Randall didn’t want to eat it, which is understandable. But, he spat the pills out. I think the pills control every persons mood in the “Cuckoo Nest”. Another fight they had was when the Nurse took away their gambling and smoking privileges. The nurse then shocks the Chief and then shocks Randall.