Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Fight the power!
Have you ever been in a situation in which power was being misused, and you felt powerless to do anything about it? Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest to describe such a scenario, and what happens when someone decides to fight the power. His heroic character, McMurphy, is demonized by the all-powerful nurse Ratchet, but in the end he earns the love of all the men formerly under Nurse Ratchet's control. Could a novel be written today in which men are abused by a woman and her black henchmen, or have we become too immersed in political correctness? Oh, by the way, Nurse Ratchet wins in the end...or does she?
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3 comments:
What are you kidding? I feel that way every day seriously.
yeah, and thanks to that movie, how many people with severe depression or bipolar depression will commit suicide because they don't have access to shock therapy treatment, which can help those who can't tolerate the medicines, and even be lifesaving for the elderly, since it works faster and with fewer side effects than pills?
the "hero" is a bipolar man in mania. By making him a hero, you get a biased story.
HE sees his "treatment" as punishment, but it is not. The film makes you see the story through his eyes, yet families who live with someone with bipolar disease could tell a different story.
boinky and terri,
Thanks for the comments. Boinky, you know I always appreciate and respect your perspective. However, the book clearly is about Nurse Ratchet's abuse of power and inhuman treatment of patients. McMurphy finally cannot continue to stand for her abuse of the powerless patients any longer, fights her power, and gets lobotomized.
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