Leadership in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and Leadership in the Rea

Leadership in superstar Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and Leadership in the Real World The theme of leadership in the protect does not mirror the outside world very accurately, as in contemporary society a leader of a society or an physical composition is almost always accountable to a person senior to him. This is not seen in the novel, as Big Nurse seems to be answerable to no one, in fact, it is arguable that everyone answers to her. A hierarchy or class system operates inside the ward which can be clearly seen throughout the course of the novel. Patients living in spite of appearance the ward ar classed according to the state of their mental health or to the tally of which they suffer from. Chief describes the method of discriminating patients from one another crosswise the room from the Acutes are the Chronics Not in the hospital, these, to get fixed, but to keep them walking the streets (17) Patients are divided into two categories of Acutes & Chronics Chronics are those patients who have a condition which is untreatable, machines with flaws which cannot be repaired (17) and can only be controlled with medical methods. They will spend the rest of their lives inside the ward of the hospital. Patients who are seen as being likely to retrieve from their illness, and will return to society. Acutes are those patients e.g. Harding, who are seen as being likely to recover from their illness, and will return to society. Chronics can either have full do of their bodies or can be again sub-categorised into Wheelers and Vegetables Those whose movement is impaired to such an extent, they can only move by being pushed around in wheelchairs. Vegetables are patients who, through excessive ECT Shock Shop (18) or through t... ... the rules. Although many countries have abolished the use of corporal or capital punishment for sincere crimes, North America is one such a country where, depending on the state, a person may face capital punishment by deadly injection, electric chair or gas chamber. The ward applies corporal punishment in the form of the ECT and it may be argued that a lobotomy is a form of capital punishment because the patient has little or no quality of life left after the procedure, so they might as healthful have been killed. Ken Keseys One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest mirrors, in the behavior of its characters, contemporary society very accurately and can still be relied on, as a contemporary text, an accurate display of the treatment of patients within a mental hospital today. Works CitedKesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. New York Viking, 1962