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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what goes on in this institute. The main points in this book deal with control, be it the character of McMurphy who is unable to h ....

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.... Billy threatened to tell his mother. Billy begged Nurse Ratched not to tell her but when his requests were refused Billy slashed his neck with a broken bottle and killed himself. Billy's life was destroyed because of Nurse Ratched's need to control others. Another place that we see the dark world is when we examine the relationship between Nurse Ratched and R.P. McMurphy. McMurphy is a happy and rebellious man. He is not used to being controlled, so when he gets into the institution he refuses to be controlled by Nurse Ratched, "I can get the best of that woman- before the week is up-without her getting the best of me". Nurse Ratched cons ....