One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest

In One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey, Chief Bromden is a character who
has to work his way back to being and acting like a real human after so many
years of being “dehumanized” (Porter 49) into a machine created by the evil
Nurse Ratched. I. Bromden in the beginning A. Dehumanized by Nurse Ratched 1.

structured 2. forbids laughing 3. controlling B. The effect that the Nurse and
the ward has on Bromden 1. could not smell 2. thinks of himself as little 3.

hides in the fog 4. fears everything 5. sees himself as comic 6. hallucinates
II. Bromden in progress A. Gives up deaf and dumb B. Great turn – around C.

Begins to smell things D. Regains his laugh E. Loosens up III. Bromden at the
end A. Bromden escapes B. Bromden is a hero C. McMurphy is death; Bromden
strength D. Bromden becomes big IV. Conclusion A. Modern world; machines destroy
B. Nurse Ratched the machine C. Modern world is the combine Bromden and his
Changing Mind In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Chief Bromden
is a character who has to work his way back to being and acting like a real
human after so many years of being “dehumanized” (Porter 49) into a machine
created by the evil Nurse Ratched. Bromden begins to change as soon as McMurphy
tries to get the guys on the ward to open up and Bromden is the one who gets the
most out of Mr. McMurphy’s “therapy” (97). Chief Bromden finally beats the
evil nurse Miss Ratched by escaping from the institution. So “Broken men –
however frightened, beleaguered, splintered, and dehumanized – can be restored
to manhood and wholeness” (95). A six foot seven inch Indian named Chief
Bromden pretense to be a deaf mute after he watched his father, Chief Tee Ah
Millatoona, get ruined by his white wife. Government agents often came to visit
his father about his property. The agents would walk right past Bromden like he
was not even there. When people stopped reacting to Bromden, he stopped reacting
to the people. At the Combine which was the name for the ward, Bromden underwent
treatment for his medical condition. The Combine split the patients into two
categories, the Acutes and the Chronics. The Acutes were the patients that had
the ability to getting better while the Chronics had no chance of getting better
because of how serious their medical condition is. In the Combine everybody
definitely considers Bromden as a Chronic. While in there and everybody thinking
he is a deaf mute, Bromden hear’s information from other peoples conversations
that he is not suppose to hear. Throughout the novel Chief Bromden feels small
and he is very easily intimidated. Without the help of the newest guy on the
ward, Randel Patrick McMurphy, he would of never been able to gain up enough
strength to feel good about himself again and escape the ward like he did in the
end of the novel. McMurphy helps Bromden tremendously plus everybody else that
is on the ward. He guides everybody to be human. McMurphy says Miss Ratched, the
Nurse of the Combine, gains her power by making others feel like they have less.

She controls everything they do from when they wake up to when they go to bed.

McMurphy rebels against Miss Ratched and tries to get the guys on the ward to
stand up for themselves too. The patients on the ward are not aloud to laugh
loosely according to Miss Ratched. McMurphy says when a man loses his ability to
laugh he is not a man anymore. Most of the patients on the ward are dehumanized
by Nurse Ratched controlling and orderly attitude. In the novel Bromden shows
the most change from McMurphy’s help. Enough change to come back after
escaping and retell the story. In the beginning of the novel Bromden was at the
point where he was completely dehumanized by Nurse Ratched. Miss. Ratched was
the main cause of his dehumanization, but not the start of it. It began is his
early childhood with the conflict between his father, the Indian chief, and his
white mother that had control over his father. As it says in the Discovering
Authors Modules: “Mrs. Bromden was a domineering women who cared little for
her husband’s Indian heritage and was instrumental in selling his land to the
government.”. Miss Ratched is in a way just like Bromden’s mother.