Who is McMurphy?
Ken Kesey’s book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a book that had a message to convey. This message is that people are trying to stifle us – to make us robots. There are many characters in Kesey’s book who are at first submissive to the world around, but in the end they begin to fight “the system,” and the world sees these people as crazy. In the beginning of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , Chief, the narrator of this tale, knows that the world is trying to make the non-conformists kowtow. He tries to fight it, but Chief does not know how to go about rebelling (Kesey, 2002, pp. 3-8) until Randle Patrick McMurphy shows up. McMurphy is a gambler, loves intimacy, a good drink and freedom. He believes that the world is wrong to make people submit, and McMurphy is not going to stand for it. Randle Patrick McMurphy is a man who is an individual in the way he thinks and acts. ...