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

Corruption in One Flew all over The Cuckoos Nest     As Lord Acton put it in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. This is the truth that is evident both in Ken Kesey track record One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. His main characters carry Ratched and Randal McMurphy are in a subtle underground war against each others accumulating power, and corruptness. This idea of great men creation bad men is evident in Keseys book, my experiences, and society in general.   Ken Kesey appears to show disgust for people of power in his book One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Throughout the novel, Nurse Ratched, the lady within whom lays all the power of the staff in a mental institution, frequently sends people who she has behavioral problems with off to the queasy wing, like she did Maxwell Taber. It is there that they experience the pain of either electroshock therapy, or a full frontal lobotomy. Nurse Ratched uses this and her natural dominance to liven up fear in her patients. She tends to agree with old school of thought that a healthy dose of fear makes people easier to control. Thus she was able to easily putdown every 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, work alongside others... she is a veteran of adjusting things (p. 30). But to do this she has created a living hell for them. McMurphy, wizard 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 now is.   I agree with Keseys view of power. I once had a teacher 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 unchecked and unchallenged due to his seniority and the difficulty of proving his crime.