Blog 2 Cuckoos Nest

The argument that Nurse Ratched is crazier then the patients can go both ways. I guess it can be  said that she technically isn't as crazy as the patients because she technically seems sane. She doesn't have the problems that the patients have, she can speak clearly, unlike Billy, she can hear fine, unlike Bromden(so they think). She seems to be put together having everything on such a tight schedule, everything in order every day. Nurse Ratched always has a perfectly white put together uniform to work in, and has a certain way she runs everything. In some eyes I can see why she might seem sane. But in my opinion I think she is the craziest of all of them. She is a machine, the combine, she is insane for the way she needs everything to be ran in the same order. Nurse is obsessed with order, which to me seems pretty crazy. She forces the men to take pills against their will. When Taber stands up to the  nurse asking what pills she is trying to have him take, which seems perfectly logical to me, she treats him like a child for not wanting to take medicine that he doesn't know what is it. She tells him she will give it to him one way or another. Thats crazy of her, she drugs the men to make them unaware, she shelters them from whats real and life. She won't even let them watch the world series. Her mind set is crazy. She seems calm and collected which she is but only because of the fact the she is crazy. The way Nurse Ratched has a grip on these mens lives and can control them, and the fact that she feeds off it, is insane and not healthy, she needs more help then the men inside the ward. She's addicted to control and you can see it eating at her when McMurphy tempts her and pushes her the wrong way. McMurphy stands up to her for himself and for the other boys. He knows that they aren't being treated like they should and doesn't take it from her and will push her limits. When he does you can see her freaking out(even though it isn't shown). She keeps still and just gets a different look in her eyes. So in conclusion yes, i can see the fact that "technically" in societies eyes she is sane, but when you think about her actions and the way she runs, she is crazy.