One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest :: Ken Kesey

captain is the narrator because if McMurphy were the narrator, he could not quite be telling the layer as a fable. He would be empowered to control the charge of the narrative--if he were still sane. But Chief, who has not been lobotomized but freed, recounts McMurphys story and takes the lesson to the alfresco world. He becomes the messenger.Chief Bromden believes in the fog and the power of the Combine. The fog is, on an individual level, a kind of mental dimness or mental confusion that also represents the thickness of delusion and suffering that prevents the inmates from seeing their true topographic point and their true selves. The Combine is, on a social level, a inhibitory institution and all the individual wheels and cogs in it that ensures that the inmates stay quiescent.When McMurphy supposedly oversleeps and is discovered, we essential question the depth of his motivation to escape. McMurphy has found deep fulfillment in helping the men in the ward, especially Bro mden, despite his increasing own(prenominal) frustration. But he also has been letting his frustration distance himself or so from his initial efforts at leadership. McMurphy may well be the kind of someone who is immoderate in his desires and who might end up oversleeping even slice he might have preferred to escape.McMurphy has figuratively disrobed Nurse Ratched, disempowering her and because she has been undetermined as human. Her power over the men is that broken, despite her sort out victory over McMurphy as an individual. Thoughts are free, but if part of ones pass has been removed, one does not even have much in the way of thoughts. Ratched has been stripped of much of her authority, her credibility in the overall institution has been further eroded, and Bromden finally gains the independence to escape.Nurse Ratched is nominally the villain, but she symbolizes a or so broken institutional system and the problems of a larger, repressive society that subjugates identi ty to conformity. She is part of the Combine, and another upon her demise will likely take her engineer in the machine. Still, she is particularly cruel at a level beyond that of the other doctors and nurses.One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, by Ken Kesey, each reference work is a representation of something else. Randle McMurphy represents an outside world/nature and Nurse Ratched represents the inwardly world and is a manipulator. However, Chief Bromden is different. He is depicted as an adherent, the equipoise between the outside and inside world, and a follower of McMurphy.