Ken Kesey. Nurse Ratched is one of the characters from Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Nurse Ratched was created in 1962.
She's just mean.
Nurse Ratched
Maxwell Taber was a patient who questioned Nurse Ratched by asking what medication he was being given. While reminising, Nurse Ratched refers to him as being a "ward manipulator". As a result of the questioning Nurse Ratched treated Taber with electro shock therapy and he was left docile. He is consider to be one of the hospitals success cases.
No as she is just part of the combine and the combine represents society. Kesey doesn't hate women like Nurse Ratched but instead blames the bigger society that forces her to be cruel and emasculate to keep her power and feel ashamed of being a women.
By smashing it, he reminds the patients that although they cannot always see Ratched's or society's manipulation, it still operates on them.
The Chief sees Nurse Ratched as a powerful and oppressive figure, representing authority and control in the mental institution. He ultimately rebels against her, seeing her as a symbol of institutionalized oppression and dehumanization.
the antagonist in the book "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" is Nurse Ratched. she is the one who is causing all the trouble for the patients in the ward. she uses her insinuation to dominate the patients and doctors to gain her own power. the nurse aims toward the men weakness so the patients in the hospital call her "ball cutter" her domination negatively affects the patients mentally and physically until a new patients arrive, McMurphy. McMurphy takes all the attention in the ward which leads to many conflicts with Nurse Ratched. the war and fight againt the two patients proves the significance of female and male sexuality. the antagonist in the book "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" is Nurse Ratched. she is the one who is causing all the trouble for the patients in the ward. she uses her insinuation to dominate the patients and doctors to gain her own power. the nurse aims toward the men weakness so the patients in the hospital call her "ball cutter" her domination negatively affects the patients mentally and physically until a new patients arrive, McMurphy. McMurphy takes all the attention in the ward which leads to many conflicts with Nurse Ratched. the war and fight againt the two patients proves the significance of female and male sexuality.
In the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the Chief enters his hallucination by resisting the dehumanizing and oppressive environment of the mental institution. He uses his imagination as a way to cope with the harsh reality and as a form of escape from the control of the Nurse Ratched and the Big Nurse.
To McMurphy laugher is a way to heal his pain. In the book it aslo says it is the one thing that keeps him sane. Laughter is letting Nurse Ratched know that he will not conform to her ways.
Clara Barton was One of the only female nurses to work at the battle front. Clara Barton was also the creator of the red cross.
"Though Ratched tries to give McMurphy a fate worse than death by having him lobotomized, Bromden dignifies McMurphy by killing him, assuring that McMurphy will always be a symbol of resistance instead of a lingering cautionary tale for future patients on Ratched's ward." -Sparknotes