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Influential Forces: McMurphy's Impact on the Patients in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Explore the transformation of the patients' behaviors in the novel before and after the fishing trip, analyzing McMurphy's influence. Compare the dock workers' attitudes towards the patients and discuss the symbolic nature of the fishing trip. Delve into Bromden's character development and the changing dynamics instigated by McMurphy's disruptive presence in the ordered institution. Through a macrocosmic lens, reflect on the larger ideas presented in Kesey's setting. Uncover the significance of the patients' reactions and Nurse Ratched's role amidst the evolving narrative in a mental health facility.

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Influential Forces: McMurphy's Impact on the Patients in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

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  1. Aim: What is now influencing the actions of the patients? Do Now: Prepare for your One-Question Quiz. HW: Read to p. 258. Answer the following in no less than 1 paragraph and no more than 2. Compare the behavior of the dock workers before and after the fishing trip. To what can you attribute their change in attitude towards the patients?

  2. McMurphy’s Influence • How have the patients’ behaviors been changed by the influence of McMurphy? Refer to Harding, Billy Bibbit and Scanlon’s activities on p. 208 • McMurphy is essentially an agent of disorder introduced into a very ordered environment. If his influence is to be seen as positive, what larger idea in Kesey setting up here? Think macrocosm, larger world.

  3. Bromden speaks p. 217 • What has finally brought Bromden to speak? • Where are Bromden’s fogs? How are his memories in stark contrast to the fog? • What effect has McMurphy had on Bromden? What does the last paragraph on p. 224 mean?

  4. Fishing Trip • What would the fishing trip mean to McMurphy? The Patients? Nurse Ratched? • How does the fishing trip begin to become symbolic?

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