What does Mack teach them in the tub room?

He teaches the men that he's not willing to give up, even when something seems impossible. He shows them that they should stand up against the Big Nurse
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Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind.
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, even when they're afraid of failing.
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What does Mack learn at the pool?

What does Mack learn at the pool? Mack learns that he is committed to the ward.
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Why does Mack have a helpless cornered despair in his voice?

Describing the "helpless, cornered despair in McMurphy's voice," Chief indicates that McMurphy is trapped into defending George and has no choice.
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What disturbing news does McMurphy learn from the lifeguard?

The ward is taken to the hospital's pool to swim. McMurphy learns from the patient serving as the lifeguard that someone who is committed to the hospital is released only at the discretion of the staff. McMurphy had believed he could leave as soon as he served the time remaining on his work farm sentence.
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Why did McMurphy break the glass?

McMurphy premeditatedly punches the glass to emphasize his power and strength. Kesey is suggesting that McMurphy is now displaying a bigger threat to Nurse Ratched and that he is beginning to impose on her power over the ward. He is threatening Nurse Ratched's authority to the ward.
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What is the punishment that Ratched has decided upon?

The rules help those who couldn't adjust to the rules in the Outside World. Nurse Ratched says that she's taking away one of their privileges as punishment. After carefully thought, the staff has decided to take away the use of the tub room (the second day room the men have been playing cards in).
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What are the first words the chief uses?

The chief's first words to McMurphy are 'thank you. ' The chief says this, revealing that he is not deaf or mute, when McMurphy gives him a piece of...
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Is Chief mentally ill Why or why not?

By Ken Kesey

Chief Bromden is a Columbia Indian who suffers from schizophrenia. Although he plays a central role in the story, he is largely an observer. Chief is an interesting narrator because he is certainly not unbiased, and his mental illness can also shed doubt on his reliability.
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Is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest a true story?

The novelist Ken Kesey based the character of Nurse Ratched, the villain of his 1962 novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” on a real person—a nurse whom he once met while working the night shift in a psychiatric facility in Oregon.
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What mental illness are in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Mac and Susanna are diagnosed with personality disorders: Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, respectively.
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What is Nurse Ratched's one weakness?

When McMurphy attacks her and tears her shirt open in front of the men, he reveals her weakness—she's a woman after all. Big breasts don't lie.
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Why did McMurphy get a lobotomy?

McMurphy is given a lobotomy for his attack on Nurse Ratched. When he is returned to the ward after the operation, he is a vegetable. That same night, Bromden suffocates McMurphy with a pillow.
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What is the fog machine in Cuckoo's Nest?

The Fog Machine

Fog is a phenomenon that clouds our vision of the world. In this novel, fogs symbolize a lack of insight and an escape from reality. When Bromden starts to slip away from reality, because of his medication or out of fear, he hallucinates fog drifting into the ward.
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How did Mack manipulate the doctor?

Mack tells the doctor that they went to the same high school, and he uses his ability to amuse to get the doctor on his side.
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What happens to Sefelt?

In the lunch room, the patient Sefelt has an epileptic seizure because he has refused to take his medication. The medication, Dilantin, prevents seizures, but he saves it to give to Frederickson, another epileptic patient.
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What is the combine in Cuckoo's Nest?

The Combine is the invention of Chief's paranoia; a large mechanized matrix that enforces its control over humankind by making it conform to rigid standards of behavior.
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Is Nurse Ratched a psychopath?

In the book and the film of “One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, Nurse Ratched was not a psychopath, she was an unbelievably mean, sadistic person. The original Nurse Ratched's actions during the story show us that something terrible must have happened in her past to make her this way.
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What was Nurse Ratched's first name?

And the actress playing the ultimate authority figure, Nurse Ratched, was Louise Fletcher. Now, almost half a century later, Nurse Ratched has been given a first name - spoiler alert, it's Mildred - and a backstory.
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Is Nurse Ratched a real nurse?

While the storyline of Ratched is fiction, the title character is actually based on a real person. While the dramatic storyline in Ratched isn't true, the character of Nurse Mildred is based on a real person. Kesey drew inspiration for his 1962 novel from working in a psychiatric wing at a large hospital.
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What was wrong with Billy bibbit?

Billy Stutters

Billy Bibbit's psychological problems manifest themselves as a stutter. Billy reveals in group therapy that he flunked out of college because he had to quit ROTC.
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Why is Billy bibbit in the ward?

He is completely dominated by his mother (a close friend of Nurse Ratched), and committed himself to the hospital voluntarily because he couldn't handle the outside world. After he loses his virginity to Candy Starr in the nighttime ward party, he is initially proud.
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What happens to Chief Bromden at the end?

By the end of the novel, the fog has cleared, and Bromden has recovered the personal strength to euthanize McMurphy, escape from the hospital, and record his account of the events.
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Why does Chief pretend being deaf?

According to the source novel, he pretends to be deaf and dumb because it allows him to hear the secrets of the people around him.
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Why is the chief afraid of the pool?

Why is the Chief afraid of the pool? Chief thinks that the pool is going to be swept out into the ocean.
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What does Chief smell for the first time since he has been in the hospital and what could it symbolize?

Chief is experiencing the smells of the outside; he is experiencing the smells of freedom. These smells are very different from the sour old smells of the asylum. This "breath of freedom" foreshadows Chief's escape, which is all sparked from McMurphy's arrival.
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