Do you think McMurphy's punishments were justified?
Friday, December 19, 2014
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental institution. We see how the patients are treated/punished because of their bad behaviors. What I found to be particularly disturbing is how McMurphy was punished with having a lobotomy and basically becoming permanently disabled. I think that this was completely unjust and uncalled for. This disgusting act shows how much mental institutions have changed over the past few decades. There were probably many other options of punishment, but the lobotomy makes absolutely no sense to me. Obviously McMurphy deserved some form of punishment for trying to kill Nurse Ratched, but the actions that the staff of the institution took show how they are incompetent at trying to actually help/cure the patients. There are many better solutions to issues that the patients create within the hospital besides shock therapy and lobotomies. Even though most of these patients have severe problems, there is no reason for these forms of "curing" them.
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I don't believe McMurphy's punishments were justified. From the very beginning of the film all the doctors and nurses said that they don't believe and cant diagnosed him with any mental illness or disorder. It was said to believe he was just their to avid his work. Nurse Ratched only applied these 'treatments' in form of punishment/ torture because he came in to this clinic and causes disturbance to her system.
ReplyDeleteAlthough McMurphy was being disruptive, I think that what happened to him was unfair. There was no real reasoning. The punishment could be considered cruel and unusual, and considering he didn give consent, and I wasn't a necessary procedure, there is no justification for the action. Also, to be a vegetable could be considered worse than just dying, so to force it upon someone who did not even commit a full crime is not justified.
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