Discuss the following:
1. The patients associate matriarchy(society where women hold all power or are dominate) with castration, explaining the lifelessness and oppressiveness of modern society as a product of female dominance. The author also makes the connection that the Combine is primarily represented by women.
Is this true? Explain why or why not, remember to use specific examples from the readings.
2. Why are all the patients at the hospital men?
3. Bromden remembers how at the old hospital they did not have pictures on the wall or TV. He recalls Public Relations saying, "A man that would want to run away from a place as nice as this, why, there'd be something wrong with him." Why does Public relations say this?
4. What happens to the patients when they stop at the gas station? (describe the learning experience)
5. After the fishing trip Nurse Ratched orders that everyone who went on the fishing trip be cleaned because of the company they kept. What happens in the showers?
6. Why does the Chief jump in to help McMurphy? Why not the others?
7. Nurse Ratched tells McMurphy that he can avoid electroshock therapy by admitting he was wrong. He refuses, and voluntarily climbs onto the cross-shaped table and wonders aloud if he will get a "crown of thorns." (what does he mean here?) Why won't McMurphy apologize?