One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
McMurphey the Hero
A hero is considered to be any man noted for courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who risks or sacrifices his life for others. In this novel Randall McMurphey is not crazy, nor may we conclude that he is the sanest of people, but as it appears he only acted as though he was mentally handicapped as an attempt to get out of the work farm he was placed in. The Psychiatric ward is his view of a âoefree ticket" out of working and throughout the story he will soon come to the realization that this so called âoefree ticket" may have a hefty price tag to it, as people in this ward are actually suffering from other means then physical hardship. McMurphey not only becomes a mentor -- as in being a main source for guidance, a leader -- demonstrating a forceful stand for oneâTMs own thoughts, and a hero -- representative of all traits that a classical heroin would own, but also a safe haven for those patients in the ward that are too apprehensive to defend themselves.
He then begins to help and understand the patients in a way only one who is truly devoted to understanding anotherâTMs mental state with the assumption that they are truly sane could do. He helps his fellow patients in the ward realize that they should stand up for themselves and what they believe in, not to give in to such obedient acts that they have been forced to obey by. While McMurphey finds out that the majority of the inmates are not crazy at all just misunderstood and mistreated by society, he brings along with them a teaching that shows that there is nothing to fear in life but fear itself. As expressed throughout the narrative from Chief BromdenâTMs point of view, from McMurphyâTMs grand entrance, the relationship he builds with the other patients, his stand against Miss Ratchet, and the rebellious attitude he persuades on his new friends, he truly denotes his role as a hero in not only the eyes of patients at the ward but also the...
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