One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Part Four

In the shocking finale of this novel, Nurse Ratched ultimatley defeats RP McMurphy. By lobotimizing him, she removes his rebellion, fesity spirit, and temper from the ward. Before she can demoralize all the other patients, Chief Bromden seeks to stop McMurphy from becoming a symbol of the "Combine's" power. He smothers him with a pillow during the night, before all of the other patients see what has been done to this once strong, individual spirit. With the loss of McMurphy, folowing the suicide of Billy Bibbit, Ratched has finally sealed her control over the 38 men on her ward. When Chief Bromden escapes into the countryside to return to his people, it is the culmination of everything he has learned from McMurphy, a symbol of everything we subconsciously learn from the people around us. With this shocking end to the story of one of the greatest power struggles of the literary twentieth century, Kesey hopes to say that the establishment will always have some measure of control over us, and that is not only our right, but our responsibility as Americans to fight and question that power.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Part Three

In part three of the book, Randle Patrick McMurphy searches for anyway to gain an advantage in his stalemate with Nurse Ratched. At the opening of the act, McMurphy has his way on the ward, while the Big Nurse bides her time , trying to find big idea that will put her back on top. McMurphy starts participating in every aspect of ward life, sometimes in the correct procedure, just to mess with the Nurse. He has complete control of the ward, and plans a fishing trip with the ward patients to further cement his control. When one of his female companions fails to make the trip due to her recent marriage, Nurse Ratched uses it as an oppurtunity to try to seize control of the ward again. She points out that McMurphy pocketed money from the patients for the trip, in order to make patients mad about the circumstances. This plan ultimatley fails when McMurphy convinces Dr. Spivey to drive the second car for the trip, which makes the trip possible.
McMurphy fights Ratched for control of the ward full out in this act, with booze, broads and boating. Making the patients love and respect him more than they fear and respect the nurse seems to be his ultimate goal. Using the respect he they have for him, McMurphy helps the men forget their fear of the nurse and take back control of the ward, along with their dignity.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Part Two

In part two of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, R.P. McMurphy goes through phases of rebellion under the control of Nurse Ratched. A major theme in this part, as in the rest of the book is control, as McMurphy struggles with the idea that Nurse Ratched can postpone his confinement indefinitly, while at first he submits to defeat after discovering this vital piece of intel, it becomes clear that he cannot live under the nurses rule for long, but his later rebellion is much more significant than his own personal agenda.
McMurphy has become a symbol for the other men on the ward, most notably Cheif Bromden and Billy Bibbit, who view him as the man come to take Nurse Ratched down a peg, and afford some more control to the patients of the ward. Therefore by continuing his struggle for control against the forces of rightful authority, he becomes more than just a crook, looking for away to live his life to the fullest inside an institution. He becomes someone fighting for the rights of the less spirited in the ward, the weak, the strong, the disturbed, and the meek, McMurphy is there to deliver them all from their own shortcomings.

Themes of castration and emotional sterilization in Part 1 of One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

The character of Nurse Ratched is one of authority, willpower, and control. Her job is take men branded a mental danger by society, and turn them into hardworking, "normal" citizens of society. Her goal however is not to transform these men into "normal" people, but into mental Uenics. She wishes for the men on her ward to becme entirely under her control. She has elevated herself to a position higher than the doctors on the ward due to her old friendship with the supervisor. The doctors are helpless to stop her degredation of the patient population for fear of losing their jobs in favor of doctors who will shut up and do what theyre told. It's quite an unstable situation on the ward.
Nurse Ratched seeks to remove all hints of sexualy from the ward, from making the men mentally impotent, to making herself less feminine. She attempts to hide her femininity by binding down her large breasts and wearing no makeup. She fears the raging hormones of a group of 40 psychotic men to the point where she cannot live life as a woman. Her total control over the men's minds keeps their hormones in check to the point were, despite some paients being on the ward for over 5 years, masturbation does not even seem appealing to the men, as they've been so domineered by this overbering mother figure. Its like living with your parents in high school all over again for these men.