Corruption in Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest :: One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest

Corruption in One Flew Over The Cuckoos nose     As Lord Acton put it in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, baron tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great workforce are almost always bad men. This is the truth that is evident both in Ken Kesey script One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. His main characters concord Ratched and Randal McMurphy are in a subtle underground war against each others accumulating power, and corruptness. This idea of great men being bad men is evident in Keseys confine, my acquaintances, and society in general.   Ken Kesey appears to show disgust for passel of power in his book One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Throughout the novel, Nurse Ratched, the lady within whom lays each the power of the staff in a mental institution, frequently sends people who she has behavioral problems with off to the disturbed wing, like she did Maxwell Taber. It is there that they experience the pain of either electroshock th erapy, or a full frontage lobotomy. Nurse Ratched uses this and her natural dominance to inspire apprehension in her patients. She tends to break with old school of thought that a healthy dose of fear makes people easier to control. Thus she was able to easily putdown any uprising against her totalitarian rule before Randle McMurphy. Nurse Ratched tries to use the power that has been given to her as head nurse to change the patients as she sees fit. As Bromden puts it, Working alongside others... she is a veteran of adjusting things (p. 30). But to do this she has created a living pitfall for them. McMurphy, one of the rare man that dares to vocalize his opinion, shows his negative sentiment towards Nurse Ratched when he tells Harding, Hell with that shes a bitch a ball cutter... (p. 58). The entire ward can see how power has corrupted Nurse Ratched into the pseudo-megalomaniac/sadist she in a flash is.   I agree with Keseys view of power. I once had a instru ctor who would grade harder for people he didnt like. As a result if he disliked one of his students, they were guaranteed a C or lower. His abuse of power went unbridled and unchallenged due to his seniority and the difficulty of proving his crime.