Blog 3 Cuckoos Nest

The ward is a microcosm for society. The way the ward is ran in order to corrupt the patients more then they already are, is the way our society works. People with authority have the power to manipulate, and that is exactly what Nurse Ratched does, and society. There are boundaries put up to "block out" people lower then others. The boundaries don't necessarily mean walls or fences, its a mental block. Society fills are heads with ideas and thoughts that are wrong and misleading, like they are meant to be. Society puts up a wall to hide the truth from people. They only let us see what they want us to see and hide behind a "curtain" with the things that truly are happening and the things are truly are begin effected. The same thing is happening in the hospital. The Nurse and everyone working the ward with the Nurse are hiding behind the truth and keep reality from the patients. But this mental block that is trying to be done can be broken and McMurphy shows us that when he punches the glass window at the hospital that the Nurse and the workers work behind. They don't want the patients seeing what they are giving them or information going on in the real world. They want to hide it from them. Nurse Ratched brain washes all the patients literally and mentally over time. She gives them pills that literally makes them all out of it and they don't know what is going on, but they way she treats them mentally brain washes them. As does society, when they try to hide the truth from the people. One example is war the way society shows the public, society makes war seem like a noble outgoing and that everyone is left with respect and in a great way, and thats not the case, just like we read in The Things They Carried. Society and the Ward do this in the same way, putting on a front to hide the truth. The ward represent the way the outside world works on the inside. They hide behind lies to benefit themselves (society, ward).