Laughter is a therapeutic form. In the novel One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kelsey laughter represents freedom and an escape from nurse Ratched’s restrictions. Laughter also proves a vital role in helping the patients deal with their problems. Not only does it help them deal with problems but it also gave them the push toward progress on getting out of the institution.
Mcmurphy was the one who started making people laughing in the ward. When he first came into the ward he was cracking jokes and shaking everybody’s hand. (p. 16) No one in the ward responded with any real response but confusion. No body knew what laughter was in the ward, it was taken from them. The only thing they had was board games and Mrs.
Ratched’s music (15).
The ward was a very depressing place. When Mcmurphy comes into the ward his laughing was making people uneasy. This showed how far away the patients were from reality. The chief says (22) “I see he is making every body over their uneasy, with all his kidding and joking.” Then right after he starts connecting to the patients and the Acutes actually show some sign of a smile (23) “The Acutes are grinning now not so uneasy any more glad that something out of the ordinary is happening.” Only after 8 pages there is progress already seen in the patients with laughter. Chief Broaden states “The air is pressed in by the walls to tight to let loose and laugh.” Before Mcmurphy arrives it is true.
The Essay on Planning And Decision Making 2
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After his presence is recognized by the patients Mrs. Ratched grip over the institution starts loosing its hold. The first thing the patients do to start breaking her hold is start the gambling. They gamble for money even though it’s against ward policy.
Little by little the patients show improvement with themselves it is portrayed by the ability not just to laugh but laugh at their own qualities. This occurs in the climax of the novel during the fishing trip (p 215).
When every ones lines tangle up and they start laughing at each other and themselves that is when they know that they aren’t really that crazy. They knew they were getting better. “They could sense the change that most of us were only suspecting; these weren’t the same bunch of weak-knees from a nut house.” Nurse ratchet lost a lot of her power once the patients knew that they had power in what goes on in the ward. They started demanding things like watching the World Series (even though they didn’t get to watch it they still demanded it), they wanted to tub room back.
They let their voice be herd. Before they started laughing they didn’t have a voice. Dr. Spivey was also influenced by the laughter in the ward he used to be Nurse Ratched’s “manikin” he used to do what ever she told him but after he started laughing he actually took care of the patients and was opt to make the carnival and take them out for the fishing trip. Laughter relates a lot to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
It is a representation of the ability to decide for your self. Billy Bibb it was always being bossed around by the nurse and his mother. Once he knew he could laugh and stop listening to what everyone demanded of him he started to loosen up… ‘It’s natural to all human beings to laugh.
It’s society which restricts us and tells us that we must settle down.’ ‘ (Murphy) The society that Billy was in, was putting to much pressure on him to settle down when he was just trying to be himself. That was the part that was making him crazy. The pressure the ward and his mother put on him to be restricted led him to his suicide. When Billy started laughing he actually started to seem normal. He actually slept with a prostitute, knowing that if his mother found out she would never see him the same way. .’ It affects our psycho neuro-immunology.’ ‘ (Murphy) “In other words, medical research has established a link between emotions, the nervous system and endocrine systems and ultimately the immune system.
The Essay on Nurse Ratched Mcmurphy Patients Ward
Randall Patrick McMurphy is introduced by asking, 'Do I look like a sane man?' Surprisingly enough, the answer was yes; in fact, McMurphy's sanity takes the ward by storm. None of the patients have met anyone like him. The other patients seem timid and quiet, yet McMurphy is cocky, loud, and confident. He doesn't seem to belong in the hospital at all. Everything about McMurphy marked a sane, ...
” (The Boston Herald April 1, 2002 p 033) The laughter in the ward keeps everyone pressed in. It is a way of restricting emotions. ‘I haven’t heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.’ (46) This statement by Mcmurphy is true. Once he started joking around and loosening things up the patients didn’t seem so crazy any more. Chief Broom actually started talking again, Billy didn’t really care what the nurse cared any more, the whole ward was doing what every thing they wanted. They had the courage to go against Nurse Ratched in the meetings, mean while they never had the guts to speak against her.
Chiswick had the nerve to ask for more cigarettes. The laughter Mcmurphy brought about led to four of the acutes leaving the ward and six other acutes to transfer to a different institution. Laughing in itself is therapeutic. People laugh for many different reasons.
Some people even laugh when something horrible occurs, it is a method of escape from what horrors or mishaps are going on around you. “Many psychotherapists find humor a valuable tool in helping their patients to solve their social and emotional problems.” (G. Samuel) Chief broaden was having many problems once he learned to laugh especially at him self he was mostly cured. He was considered a chronic but after Mcmuprhy showed him that he has the ability to laugh and coincide with a group he was some what cured. “jokes and commissions enable individuals to defend against anxieties, fear, anger, and other disturbing emotions.” (G.
Samuel) This was true in the chief’s and Harding’s case. Both of them left the institution. Laughing is resorted to in times where we need to laugh. It’s an escape from reality, its comfort, its fear. Laughing subdues any emotion that is too high strung in our system. It lets it vapor out in a melancholy form that helps us cope with problems that no one else can really understand and help us with.
The Essay on Nurse Ratched Chief Esteem Mcmurphy
... "mechanic." To gain control of her ward Nurse Ratched ignores and challenges what her ... Chief had not heard for years. It was this laugh and McMurphy's simple presence that provided a 'sane-like' atmosphere that the ward ... it gets thick enough you " re lost in it and cant let go, and ... Chief notices that McMurphy succeeds in healing the patients. "I notice Harding collapsed beside McMurphy and is laughing ...
In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest it allowed emotional tension escape from the patients and made nurse Ratched lose her ward.
