Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... the terrifying and strict head nurse on a psychiatric ward. Nurse Ratched owns the ward, and anything that happens here is under her strict supervision. She has complete control over everything that moves, until patient Randle Patrick McMurphy comes along and shakes everything up.
Personality… cruel, controlling, and authoritarian. Nurse Ratched is the end-all-be-all of her ward, and she won’t take any kind of mutiny. Everyone on the ward fears her deeply, and she takes pride in her position as the brave and fearless leader of the pack.
Get to Know her in...
-
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
-
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.
-
An origins story, beginning in 1947, which follows Ratched's journey and evolution from nurse to full-fledged monster tracking her murderous progression through the mental health care system.
