One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, the psychotic ward (prior to the arrival of the boisterous, auspicious character named Randall Patrick McMurphy,) was a place of order, and a place where the patients respected the rules dictated by the revered Miss Ratched, the Head, or "Big" Nurse. The patients did not analyze or question the policies created by Big Nurse; they did not dare defy them for fear of life-altering punishment, …

…There is no proof that any of those occurrences would not have inevitably transpired with or without the influence of McMurphy. In finality, Randall Patrick McMurphy gave the other patients courage, bravery, and a sense of being someone again. He untied their bound emotions, opened up their hearts, and gave them the strength to say what they usually only dared think about Miss Ratched and her ward. McMurphy made them back into men from mice.