The English writer Rodeard Kipling put it this way in his famous poem "If":
"If the people around you are irrationally attacking you, you can still be calm and calm;
If people are suspicious of you, you can still be confident as usual and think that their suspicions are justified;
If you are slandered but do not reciprocate with tit-for-tat, and if you are hated by others, you do not repay evil with evil;
If you have dreams and you are not dominated by dreams; if you have thoughts and do not go into the fire...
Then you are the most supreme person in the world."
When a person is opposed to most people and still has to stick to his beliefs, it takes great courage, and the story of uncompromising is impressive, which is why,
Like McMurphy in the madhouse, he bears a heavy moral obligation but never gives in, which makes people feel respected
Hello everyone, today brings you the work of American writer Ken Kersey "Flying Over the Madhouse"
McMurphy was a tramp, strong and flamboyant, who was forced into hard labor for rape, but he was not a man willing to obey discipline.
In order to escape the upcoming punishment, he had a plan to pretend to be crazy and stupid in the labor camp, but he did not think that because his acting skills were too realistic, McMurphy was directly sent to the madhouse by the staff.
During the admission examination, the doctor Spielway discovered this problem, because compared with other patients, McMurphy was alert and humorous, and he was not a psychopath at all.
But Spielway didn't want to be troublesome and didn't poke
On his first day at the asylum, McMurphy met two very eye-catching patients: Billy, who stuttered, and Ziffer, a "deaf and dumb" Indian chieftain.
Billy is timid and cowardly, a serious Oedipus patient,
Although Ziffer grew tall and big, his eyes were sluggish like a dead thing,
They both seemed to be severely psychopathic, but McMurphy liked both of them
Miss Lachid, the head nurse who cares for patients, is a woman with a serious face who often likes to "treat" patients by asking questions or even scolding questions.
This is a long-term disciplined and incapable patient in the madhouse, which is long-established and has no ability to resist, but the normal mcMurphy who has just arrived is difficult to endure.
He fought back angrily, looking back at the head nurse with cold eyes, trying to make the other party panic and show mercy to his men in this way, but he miscalculated
On this day, McMurphy rushed into the office of the head nurse of the "patient forbidden area" and wanted to give some advice, but before he could speak, he was unceremoniously "invited" out;
Later, McMurphy respectfully suggested to the head nurse in between receiving the medicine, hoping to reduce the sound of the public horn, but was also strictly rejected;
Another time, baseball fan McMurphy strongly demanded that the meaningless "psychotherapy" during the day be placed at night, because patients could watch the live broadcast of the World Baseball Championship.
But the head nurse, Miss Lachid, also refused expressionlessly, and solemnly warned him:
"What you are asking for is a change in a carefully studied rule",
Baseball fan McMurphy refused to give up the opportunity, still arguing strongly:
"There is no harm in small changes, and after the game, you can change them",
Looking at McMurphy's flushed face and the cautious glances of the other patients, Miss Ratchede felt the need to argue with a group of madmen, and she pretended to be helpless to give in, saying to the patients:
Let's take a vote
McMurphy was overjoyed, and looking at the eager faces of his patients, he felt that he had won.
But after the short period of excitement, the scene was a little awkward, because except for McMurphy's first firm hand, everyone present did not express their position.
Tabor wanted to lift, but Miss Ratchede's eyes swept away, and his overwhelmed hand immediately shrank back in fright;
Martini also wanted to lift, but as soon as the hand crossed the top of his head, he changed direction and scratched at his ear;
Sèvres' hands groped his chest, and more people's hands rested uneasily on his legs,
Everyone wanted to watch the game, but no one dared to defy the cold gaze of Miss Ratchede, the head nurse, and although McMurphy repeatedly encouraged everyone to fight for freedom, only three people finally had the courage to raise their hands
In this way, the first "democracy" of the lunatic asylum ended in failure, and McMurphy was a little frustrated, but he was not disappointed.
After a brief silence, he regained his composure and continued to cheer for everyone, and finally, the second "democracy" vote of the madhouse ended with 9 votes.
The fixed schedule remained unchanged because the head nurse condescended to mcMurphy:
With 18 patients in the hospital, not more than half, his proposal was not feasible.
McMurphy was completely enraged and began to lobby patients harder to vote, and with his unremitting efforts, finally the "deaf and dumb" Ziever raised his hand, and now the vote is more than half.
But when McMurphy gleefully told the head nurse and begged the other party to turn on the TV, the head nurse snuffed out the patients' reasonable requests with the words: "Voting time has passed."
McMurphy was very angry, but helpless, he was a patient here, and he did not have the strength to fight the hospital.
When he first designed to leave the labor camp and come to the lunatic asylum, he was supposed to be able to avoid his duties easily, but he did not expect that this place was not a refuge for labor at all.
Not only is the movement limited everywhere, but also the "treatment" is not moved, the monotony, boring, stereotyped of the lunatic asylum, so that the healthy and disease-free McMurphy day by day swells his head and is depressed.
Sometimes he looks at his "patients" and even can't help but wonder whether they entered the madhouse because they were crazy, or whether they became crazy because they entered the madhouse.
The inhuman treatment of the hospital made McMurphy intolerable, he was not a madman, naturally he could not accept management without human rights and dignity like a madman.
The stubbornness of McMurphy's personality and the normal way of thinking made him very dissatisfied with the stiff and unkind treatment of Miss Lachid, the head nurse.
Looking at the patients who had no complaints and were resigned, McMurphy decided to form a force of resistance to wake up the patients.
Therefore, McMurphy often disobeyed the orders of the insane asylum, and he quietly threw the drugs he had to take into the toilet with the head nurse on his back.
He played basketball with other patients, encouraged the "deaf and mute" Ziffer to shoot, secretly climbed over the wall to go out, and even privately used the bus of the hospital to "recuperate" patients to pull the patients to fish.
McMurphy thought that this would make the patients feel the fighting spirit to defend their rights, or that the madhouse would be able to determine that he did not obey the rules because of these out-of-the-ordinary things, so that he could be sent back to the labor camp again.
But he miscalculated again, and at the high-level meeting of the insane asylum, miss Lachid, the head nurse, sincerely proposed that McMurphy remain in the insane asylum
It was an insane asylum that McMurphy could not understand, which advertised advanced drugs and psychiatric treatment, but regarded the patient as an animal, depriving even the most basic rights and hobbies of life.
At a morning talk, the smoking patient Cheswick emotionally asked the head nurse to return the cigarettes brought by his family, but the head nurse refused with a disdainful face, saying to everyone:
McMurphy opened a small casino in the hospital in an attempt to win away all the patients' money and cigarettes, so your "benefits" were suspended.
The more the patient Cheswick listened, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but cry and replied:
I am by no means a child, and you control my cigarette like a cookie that controls a child.
This is the truth that even the patient understands: the control of the child's biscuit can be said to be for the sake of the other party's health, and the control of an adult's "biscuit" is blatant hegemony.
The lunatic asylum is an authoritarian area of doctors and nurses, a place where reasoning cannot be made.
In fact, restricting and controlling the right of patients to live is the most basic punishment for disobedience to discipline the sick.
More excessively, the hospital will disregard the patient's fear and safety, force them to undergo painful electrotherapy,
After an unruly "hooliganism", McMurphy and Ziever were brought here, and after the electrotherapy, they ostensibly obeyed the rules of the hospital, and they were much more honest.
In fact, McMurphy was planning to escape, because he could no longer endure inhuman treatment in the hospital.
He was afraid that one day he would die here, and the long-term suppression and persecution in the lunatic asylum had made many mentally ill people lose their yearning for the outside world.
Although he was angry and resentful of his misfortune, he refused to believe that they were really willing to be trapped here, at least McMurphy wanted to escape.
On this day, he handed a chewing gum to the Indian Ziffer, and Ziffer suddenly said to him: Thank you,
McMurphy was so happy that the "deaf mute" Ziever actually spoke, and this change made McMurphy more confident.
He proposed to let Ziever escape with him, and Ziever fixed his mind and nodded his head, at this time although there was still some hesitation to escape, Ziever was willing to believe and follow McMurphy.
The agreement between the two was reached, and then they waited for an opportunity to escape
On Christmas Day, McMurphy sneaked into the head nurse's office when no one was ready, called his girlfriend Katie, asked him to drive a car and bring some wine.
He decided to run away tonight and say goodbye to all his patients. That night, the madhouse was brightly lit, and everyone gathered in the hospital hall to sing and drink.
McMurphy came to the head nurse's office again, turned on the horn, picked up the microphone and announced to everyone: I'm leaving.
Everyone is very excited in the madhouse, although it is not themselves who want to regain their freedom, but as long as someone can go out from here, it also represents the victory of all patients.
After most of the night, the patients were looking for a place to lie down with drunkenness, when Billy suddenly made a request, saying that he wanted to stay with McMurphy's youthful girlfriend Katie for a while.
McMurphy agrees, he sympathizes with His Oedipal Billy, and if he can, McMurphy plans to take Billy with him.
But looking at the drunken people, McMurphy hesitated, he could naturally leave everything behind, but what kind of guilt would the patients who stayed behind suffer?
McMurphy felt that he could not be so selfish, and he had to stay and personally bear the consequences of the crazy move.
Waking up again was early in the morning of the next day, and as soon as the head nurse, Miss Lachid, heard the situation, she immediately led a group of horses to here.
She first woke up the drunken crowd, and then subdued the weak-willed Billy,
The head nurse is well aware of Billy's weakness and threatens to tell his mother about Billy's performance last night, Billy is really scared, he cries and shouts while honestly explaining the beginning and end of the matter, while fearfully asking the head nurse to keep it a secret for himself.
But miss Lachide, the head nurse, did not think about the poor, fragile patient in front of her, and after listening to Billy's nagging explanation, she coldly took Billy away and locked him in a room.
In this way, Billy, with worry and guilt, committed suicide with broken glass
The head nurse's despicable words and deeds made McMurphy extremely angry, and he threw himself at the head nurse regardless of his disregard, he wanted to strangle the other party, so that there would be one less demon in the world.
So that his poor patients would no longer have to be tortured, and his dead friend Billy would not have to worry about the head nurse informing his mother again.
But before McMurphy's hand could exert force, he received a violent blow to the back of his head and fainted.
McMurphy was forcibly taken away, calm returned to the asylum, and a few days later, when he was sent back again, he had already had a lobectomy, and this time, McMurphy became a real lunatic in the asylum.
One night not long after, The Indian chief Ziffer whispered to the sluggish-eyed McMurphy: Let's go, I can't leave you here like this.
He was about to fulfill his promise to McMurphy, and after a moment of silence, Ziever picked up a pillow and pressed it against McMurphy's face.
Even if he died, Ziffer would flee with McMurphy's soul, caressing his friend's face sadly, then getting up and smashing the iron window, and running toward the free primeval forest before the night was overcast
It was a confrontation between order and freedom, and in the eyes of miss Lachid, the head nurse, the madmen in the madhouse needed to be suppressed.
So she did whatever it took to make the patient obedient, smooth his edges and corners with fierce curses, and stand on the moral high ground to arbitrarily evaluate him.
In contrast, Miss Ratchede is more like a real madman in the madhouse, she indiscriminately turns the "dissidents" into "aliens",
Classifying the rebellious system as "mentally ill", classifying those who provoke authority as "madmen", carrying fierce steel knives, shouting "fairness and justice",
A world that does not allow one to live if one does not go with the flow and sacrifice one's personality and one's personality to society is heart-wrenching.
Because of not "obeying discipline", and unable to get release, because of the need to retain backbone, he was trapped in the ward for life, this is McMurphy's real life,
Struggling to survive between madness and civilization, freedom and slavery, and finally, even life must be put into it,
In this way, the exodus of Chief Ziever was the only triumph of McMurphy's spirit, but is it a sin to resist when one faces injustice?
On the road to freedom, McMurphy eventually fell,
But his efforts were not in vain, because the moment Chief Ziever broke through the window, McMurphy also achieved the liberation he had dreamed of