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.
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