One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The main focus of this novel is the total dominance of one mental institute by one woman, the Big Nurse, an ex-army nurse who is controlling and likes to run things according to her ways. As the novel move on, the turning point for all the patients in the ward appear, R.P McMurphy, a redheaded gambler, former con man who likes to take challenges and this time, challenges the powers of the Big Nurse. …

…her hands are shaking.¡¨(P.100). From being calm and confident, she became vulnerable and weak. Due to McMurphy¡¦s emergence in the mental institute, everyone is changed. The patients now realize that they too can have a voice. Even though McMurphy dies in the end, but he still made a great impact in the ward, and he was the one to rebel and brought everyone to realize they are more than just Chronics and Acutes.