McMurphy vs. Nurse

 
            Throughout the Cuckoo's Nest there is an ongoing battle between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy. Currently, McMurphy is winning this battle because he is the one representing higher authority. He comes into the mental ward and upsets the Big Nurse's whole system she has going. She wants everything a certain way and when McMurphy changes everything up by taking an authoritive position over all the patients in the ward and the Big Nurse looses it. Also most of the men in the ward find interest and enjoyment in the way McMurphy acts and lives his life. It is mainly everyone against the Big Nurse as of now.
            As the book goes on, I think that McMurphy will be losing the battle. The Big Nurse could at any point take McMurphy into her hands and have electroshock therapy or a lobotomy done on McMurphy. This will take McMurphy completely out of the battle. Since McMurphy is committed, the Big Nurse has complete control over the outcome of McMurphy's life. Therefore, the Big Nurse will win this battle in the end.