Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Being "committed"
In the meeting that The Big Nurse calls it is mentioned that McMurphy is a committed patient. Then later when they go to the pool the lifeguard breaks the news to McMurphy that it is up the the staff, so really up to the Big Nurse when he gets to leave the ward. The Big Nurse does not classify McMurphy as an extraordinary case, but that she can turn him into a coward. Once he is a coward then she thinks that everything will be back to normal and the patients will stop questioning her authority. After the Big Nurse turns McMurphy into a coward will he then be classified as extraordinary and get to leave her ward? Will he even be able to be let go?
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I don't think that Nurse Ratched will ever let McMurphy go because I believe that she wants to make him suffer for all the trouble he has caused her and that she will keep him there till he dies to spite him for all that he has done to her and so she can use him as an example of what will happen to a person if they challenge her.
I believe that she enjoys this. McMurphy is standing up against her and since she has the power to keep him there she's going to take advantage of that. She will find pleasure watching him break, crack until the "water" (torment) filling the tank (McMurphy) has no place to go and begins to leak out. It'll be too much for his mind to conceal and unless he finds the plug to her sadistic nature, his mind WILL shatter and there will be nothing left. The pieces will not be able to be put back together and so he will be damned to this asylum until the day he dies.
McMurphy becoming a coward will not reclassify him as extraordinary. In fact, it will make even more ordinary because he will be just like the other patients. The Nurse will probably release him shortly after he gives up so as to avoid the possibility of McMurphy trying to disrupt the ward again.
I don't think Nurse Ratched will ever let McMurphy leave. That would mean relinquishing her power over him. She will humiliate him to no end, cause the others to lose all respect for him, and maybe send him to disturbed for a final victory.
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