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Context:
- Before this scene, McMurphy talks with the other patients about the nurse, and how the patients are all "kissing her ass".
- Says that the Nurse has no control over him
- In this scene, McMurphy finds out that most patients are voluntary except him and some of the chronics and Scanlon.
- After this scene, McMurphy finds out that one has to be nicer to the Nurse, because she has the control over him and when he lives.


Themes:
- Self-sacrifice vs. Self-interest
○ " you have more to lose than I do…I'm voluntary. I'm not committed"
- Perspective vs. perspective
○ "you, Billy -must be committed for Christsakes!"
○ "McMurphy doesn’t say a word. He's got that same puzzled look on his face like there's something isn't right, something he cant put his finger on"
- Control and Oppression
○ Control: the nurse has the control over McMurphy and when he has the right to leave the ward

Character:
- McMurphy
○ Change: finds out that he is one of the few that have been committed, and can’t chose when to leave the ward
- Harding
○ Is using this opportunity to be the bigger one
§ Motif: big vs. small
□ "No. You've got more to lose than I do, my friend"
® Condescending
- Billy Bibbit
○ Not committed either, being "big"
§ "standing on tiptoe"

Motifs:
- Big vs. small
○ The individual characters
○ The machinery:
§ " Martini comes away from the X-ray screen, buttoning his shirt and muttering, I wouldn’t of believed it if I hadn't saw it"

What drives the text?
- Language:
○ "like there's something isn't right…"
§ Unsophisticated language of McMurphy
§ The grammar is incorrect, there is a word missing
○ Tone of Harding:
§ Sophisticated
§ Condescending
§ Teasing
○ Tone of McMurphy
§ Unsophisticated
§ Harsh
§ Scared/confused
- Structure
○ The paragraphs are made when there is a change of character speaking, or if someone is in action
○ When the tone changes from Harding to McMurphy
- Imagery
○ "McMurphy walks up and down in front of that bench, running his hand around in that thick hair"
- Rhetoric
○ Repetition:
§ " You've got more to lose than I do"
§ "Are you bullshitting me?"

Angel of Mercy (page 55)

Theme:
Self sacrifice vs. Self Interest, because Miss Ratched (The Big Nurse) helps other people on her weekends, she never has a time where she doesn’t help someone. That means she sacrifices her time for other people, however, she does it partly for self interest, because this way she knows that these people will never forget her.

Motif:
The motif represented is the Nurse and her Power. On page 55, Harding described the nurse and what she does when she is not at the ward; she does volunteer work. The nurse has the power to make other people think that she is a angel, and does everything for other people, however she knows exactly that these people will never forget her.

Symbol:
There is no symbol represented in this part.

Language:

Mood: Tense; everyone is listening to Harding, without saying a word. The patients all wait until Harding is finished and then McMurphy is again the first one who says something.

Tone; Descriptive, because Harding is explaining the situation with the nurse.

Furthermore, there is some listing:
"throwing kisses, smiling ethereally"

Also there are a lot of metaphors and similes describing the nurse:
"unselfish as the wind"
"a sound comes out of his mouth like a nail being crowbarred out of a plank of green pine"

Diction:
Some of the words are quit complicated
Harding talks to people as grownups, does not put them down.


Important Quotes:

"Miss Ratched is a veritable angel of mercy and why just everyone knows it…and the couple is forever indebted to her benevolence…Oh the bitch, the bitch, the bitch, he whispers through his teeth."

"she is so intoxicated with the sweet milk of human kindness" ---relationship with Shakespeare Macbeth ?????