Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest elaborates on the topic that as individuals, we need these specific aspects in our lives to truly discover and hone our true selves. ... A person's action can often influence an individual's determination; through one's desire, power and strength will free one's conflict. ... "Twenty-one! The Chief's vote makes it twenty one. ... Randle Patrick McMurphy oppressed the control Ratched had over her ward. ...

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The film adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest portrays a mental hospital where the patients housed within are constrained by use of medication and a controlling nurse who reduces the patients' wills to that of children. The patients continually berate one another, which effectively draws each one to further seclusion within himself. ... She seems to get off on her authoritarian rule over the patients as she propels them to reproach one another. ... At first, he seems amused to see the patients yelling at one another, but as he takes the entire situation in, his attitude cha...

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