Montag, 28. September 2009

Cookoo's nest (88-89)

Context:
After McMurphy arrived at the psychatry he refuses to wash himself. For the first time the nurse is given opposition

Control of Opression
Characters:
Black boys, nurse, mcmurphy (chief bromden)

Tone: Tone of Black boys: uncertain "I guess…"
Nurse: Sharp and decisive (Symbol: Opression, Combine)
LanguageBlack Boys: Incomplete
Nurse: Simple

Rhetorical Questions: "What do you think!"

Shift in Control:
Tone Nurse:UncertainLanguage:Incomplete, uncertain,

-Nurse has lost Control

"like a wooden rack" Simmuli, she is nothing anymore

Imagery(Figurative):"face white and warped with fury"

Combine:
Nurse: Simuli to red hot wireImagery (Sensory): "shimmer a bit then click solid as the molten metal sets growing cold and strangely dull"Machinery of Combine that controls all"good morning rountine" happy again, nice again

The Role of Sexuality
About him not having clothes on
She had rather had him "stark naked" under it

-Shows how she wants to repress Sexuality

He finally winks at the nurse-Shows his sexuality

Be a Man
"a set of greens-probably 10 sizes to small"
Small vs. Big

-McMurphy is a man (Symbol: How americans should be, freedom fighter)



Living vs. Apathy/ Sanity vs. Insanity
"figuring the patients'll be too sleepy to notise"
Nurse knows that the event doesen't matter since patients are so insane, they will not notice that she has "barely" lost control


What's driving this:
Tone and Sentence Structure

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