McMurphy as Hero of Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest :: One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest

McMurphy as Hero of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest   A hero is considered to be any man noned for courage or grandness of Purpose especially, one who has risked or sacrificed his life. In Ken Keseys novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the reader can see how McMurphy is a prime example of a hero. McMurphys say-so embodies a heroic devotion to the other acutes on the ward.   There were no heroes on the psychiatric ward until McMurphys arrival. McMurphy gave the patients courage to stand against a truncated theory of masculinity, such as Nurse Ratched. For example, Harding states, No ones ever dared to come out and say it before, but there is not a man among us that does not think it. That doesnt feel just as you do about her, and the whole business feels it somewhere down deep in his sacred little soul. McMurphy did not only understand his friends/patients, but understood the enemy who portrayed evil, spite, and hatred. McMurphy is the only one who can sta nd against the Big Nurses oppressive supreme power. Chief explains this by stating, To beat her you dont have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as sson as you loose once, shes won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that. McMuprhys struggle for hte patients free will is a disruption to Nurse Ratcheds social order. Though she holds down her guard she yet is incapable of controlling what McMurphy is incontrollable of , such as his friends well being, to the order of Nurse Ratched and the Combine.   tear down though McMurphys own sacrifice of life is the price of his victory, he still attempts to push the ward patients to hold thier own personal opinions and fight for what is ethically right. For instinace, McMurphy states, scarce I tried though, he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell id that much, now didnt I? McMurphy strains to bring the fellas courage and determinat ion in a smirch full of inadequacy and perfection. McMurphy obtains a lot of courage in maintaining his own sort of personal integrity, and trying to keep the guys intergrity and optimistic hope up.