1. 12/23/2015 1 Seminar: Conformity vs Nonconformity (pages 1- 14) Ms. Bokpe

2. Characterization Chef Bromdon (Broom) Chef Bromdon (Broom) Deaf Deaf The narrator The narrator Randle McMurphy (RPM) Randle McMurphy (RPM) Size imagery -Larger than life (laughter) Size imagery -Larger than life (laughter) Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse) Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse) Holds all the power Holds all the power Size and mechanical imagery introduced Size and mechanical imagery introduced 12/23/2015 2

3. Sybols/Motifs Fog Fog Laughter Laughter Combine Combine Size Size 12/23/2015 3

4. Gender Roles Women hold the power in the asylum Women hold the power in the asylum Nurse Ratched vs McMurphy conflict introduced Nurse Ratched vs McMurphy conflict introduced 12/23/2015 4

5. Themes Conformity vs nonconformity Conformity vs nonconformity Human vs the machine Human vs the machine The struggle of the sane individual against a crazy institution/society The struggle of the sane individual against a crazy institution/society 12/23/2015 5

6. 6 Big (Guiding) Question(s) How does society maintain power over nonconformists? How does society maintain power over nonconformists? How are mental patients portrayed in the first two chapters? Why? Who do they represent? How are mental patients portrayed in the first two chapters? Why? Who do they represent? What does the mental institution represent? What does the mental institution represent? What does the Big Nurse (Ratched) represent? What does the Big Nurse (Ratched) represent? What happens to individuals who defy authority? What happens to individuals who defy authority?

7. 12/23/2015 7 Big Idea(s): Central Issue(s) Cruelty in mental institutions Cruelty in mental institutions The plight of American native Indians The plight of American native Indians Conformity vs non-conformity Conformity vs non-conformity

8. 12/23/2015 8 Cruelty in mental institutions Orderlies sexually abuse inmates Orderlies sexually abuse inmates “Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them” (3). “Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them” (3). “One swats the backs of my legs with a broom handle to hurry me past” (3). “One swats the backs of my legs with a broom handle to hurry me past” (3). “They laugh and then I hear them mumbling behind me, heads close together. Hum of black machinery, humming hate and death and other hospital secrets” (3) - metaphor “They laugh and then I hear them mumbling behind me, heads close together. Hum of black machinery, humming hate and death and other hospital secrets” (3) - metaphor

9. 12/23/2015 9 Plight of Indians “...I’m nearby because they think I’m deaf an dumb. Everybody thinks so. I’m cagey enough to fool them that much. If my being half Indian ever helped me in any way in this dirty life, it helped me being cagey, helped me all these years” (4) “...I’m nearby because they think I’m deaf an dumb. Everybody thinks so. I’m cagey enough to fool them that much. If my being half Indian ever helped me in any way in this dirty life, it helped me being cagey, helped me all these years” (4) (reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion).

10. 12/23/2015 10 Cruelty of the Big Nurse Metaphor: compared to big machinery (a metaphor for society at large – power of the government and corporations) Metaphor: compared to big machinery (a metaphor for society at large – power of the government and corporations) “She’s swelling up...” (5) “She’s swelling up...” (5) “... And she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load” (5) “... And she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load” (5)

11. 12/23/2015 11 Cruelty of mental institutions “And since it is Monday, boys, why don’t we get a good head start on the week by shaving poor Mr. Bromden first this morning” (6) “And since it is Monday, boys, why don’t we get a good head start on the week by shaving poor Mr. Bromden first this morning” (6) “... While she jams wicker bag and all into my mouth and shoves it down with a mop handle” (7). “... While she jams wicker bag and all into my mouth and shoves it down with a mop handle” (7). “... And locked me in Seclusion...” (9) “... And locked me in Seclusion...” (9) “They got enough of those things they call pills down me so I don’s know a thing till I hear the ward door open” (9). “They got enough of those things they call pills down me so I don’s know a thing till I hear the ward door open” (9). -BM (Before Medication) -BM (Before Medication)

12. 12/23/2015 12 Cruelty of mental institutions “Then I see two, maybe all three of them in there, in that shower room with the Admission, running that thermometer...” (10). “Then I see two, maybe all three of them in there, in that shower room with the Admission, running that thermometer...” (10).

13. 12/23/2015 13 Satire Author uses satire to target the institutions of the 1960s Author uses satire to target the institutions of the 1960s “... Led on a tour by that fool Public Relation man who’s always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty” (10) “... Led on a tour by that fool Public Relation man who’s always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty” (10) “Oh, when I think back on the old days, on the filfth, the bad food, even, yes, brutality, oh, I realize, ladies, that we have come a long way in our campaign!” (10) “Oh, when I think back on the old days, on the filfth, the bad food, even, yes, brutality, oh, I realize, ladies, that we have come a long way in our campaign!” (10)

14. 12/23/2015 14 Conformity vs non-conformity Randle McMurphy Randle McMurphy “Still, even though I can’t see him, I know he’s no ordinary Admission... He tells them right back in a loud, brassy voice that he’s already plenty damn clean, thank you” (11). “Still, even though I can’t see him, I know he’s no ordinary Admission... He tells them right back in a loud, brassy voice that he’s already plenty damn clean, thank you” (11). “He sounds like he’s way above them, talking down, like he’s sailing fifty yards overhead, hollering at those below on the ground. He sounds big. I hear him coming down the hall, and he sounds big...” (11). “He sounds like he’s way above them, talking down, like he’s sailing fifty yards overhead, hollering at those below on the ground. He sounds big. I hear him coming down the hall, and he sounds big...” (11).

15. 12/23/2015 15 Conformity vs non-conformity “... He commences to laugh. But it’s not the way that Public Relations laughs, it’s free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it’s lapping against the walls all over the ward” (12). “... He commences to laugh. But it’s not the way that Public Relations laughs, it’s free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it’s lapping against the walls all over the ward” (12). The institution (Public Relations man) vs the individual (McMurphy) The institution (Public Relations man) vs the individual (McMurphy)

16. 12/23/2015 16 Big Question(s) What are inpatients in mental institutions really like? What are inpatients in mental institutions really like? Are they really insane or are they merely different from main stream society? Are they really insane or are they merely different from main stream society? Do they represent the counterculture of the 1960s? Do they represent the counterculture of the 1960s?