One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Essay -- essays research papers

Freedom is defined as the condition of being free of restraints but freedom for me has a greater and deeper meaning. Freedom is the power to make ones own decisions, the power to laugh, the power to speak ones mind with egress boundaries. Freedom is a frame of mind. One is only rattling free when they themselves believe it to be so. This mentality of freedom is best seen in Chief Bromdens character. Although he lives in world full of rules, he slowly but surely breaks from the chains, and begins to believe himself free, regardless of his location. This way of thinking, lead him to finally become physically free.      In the beginning of the novel the Chief is stuck in some carve up of "fog" that acts as his way of hiding from the outside world and all his problems. Everyone on the ward thought him to be a deaf mute because he never talked. But the truth was that he wasnt deaf or mute, but it wasnt until he started coming out of the fog, that he began to improve. Chief once said that, " he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just keep yourself in balance, just to keep you from running plumb crazy"(123). Laughter is what helped him to come out of him fog and talk for the first time in many years. " At first I started getting real mad. I though he was fashioning fun of me like other people hadbut the more I thought about it the funnier it seemed to me. I tried to stop but I could touch sensation I was about to laugh-not at McM...