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Kesey constructs the Big Nurse as a stark contrast to McMurphy by characterizing the Big Nurse with mechanical imagery and McMurphy with natural imagery. The gestures of the Big Nurse is described as “precise, automatic gesture” revealing her inhumane qualities which she employs when ruling the ward.

Kesey purposely creates two foil characters that represents the conflicting dynamics of the ward to demonstrate the severe treatment of patients and emphasize the importance of personality.

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ʞǝu ʞǝsǝʎ' ɐnʇɥoɹ oɟ ouǝ ɟןǝʍ oʌǝɹ ʇɥǝ ɔnɔʞoo,s uǝsʇ' ʌıʌıpןʎ ɾnxʇɐdosǝs ʇɥǝ sʇǝɹıןǝ ɐup ɔןǝɐu uɐʇnɹǝ oɟ qıƃ unɹsǝ ʍıʇɥ ʇɥǝ ɹɐɯqnuɔʇıons' ɔoןoɹɟnן' ɐup ɥnɯɐu ɯɔɯnɹdɥʎ ıu oɹpǝɹ ʇo ǝsʇɐqןısɥ ɐ ɟoıן qǝʇʍǝǝu ʇɥǝ ʇʍo ɔɥɐɹɐɔʇǝɹs' ʇɥns ɐןןoʍıuƃ ɟoɹ ɐ ɔouɟןıɔʇ ʇo oɔɔnɹ˙ ɟoɹ ıusʇɐuɔǝ' ɐs pǝdıɔʇǝp qʎ ɔɥıǝɟ' qıƃ unɹsǝ,s ɯoʌǝɯǝuʇs ɐɹǝ pǝsɔɹıqǝp ɐs „dɹǝɔısǝ' ɐnʇoɯɐʇıɔ ƃǝsʇnɹǝ'„ ɐup ɥǝɹ ɟɐɔǝ ıs pǝsɔɹıqǝp ɐs „sɯooʇɥ' ɔɐןɔnןɐʇǝp' ɐup dɹǝɔısıou-ɯɐpǝ˙„

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Kesey initiates Big Nurse's characterization as punctual and authoritative; in doing so, he shapes the polarity between the nature of McMurphy, a witty and rambunctious patient that has a reputation of undermining authority.

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The illustration Kesey depicts of the Big Nure's mechanical, colorless, assertive personality, juxtaposes with Murphy's chaotic, energetic, natural spirit (In order to prove? BIG WHY). In the introduction of the Big Nurse being " soft and swift" immediately establishes a presence of control and faultless temperaments of this character.

Although the Big Nurse is a perfect authoritative character, McMurphy deeply injects a sense of disorder into her domain (which Kesey uses to advance ________ idea).

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Kesey contrasts Big Nurse, associating her with unnatural sterility and properness, with McMurphy, describing him with a natural, wild rawness, to create the idea that there is more kindness and humanity present within graceless chaos than there is with overbearing authority. Big Nurse's first movements are characterized by likening her hand gesture to clean metal, imagery that emphasizes the disturbingly impenetrable authority that she holds: "...and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel."

The connotation that McMurphy carries as representing natural disorder  juxtaposed with the implications that Big Nurse carries as a symbol for forced order therefore suggest that their is a lack of any real humanity within artificial law, and the more humane aspects like comfortableness and homeliness lie ironically within wild chaos.

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By juxtaposing precision and unruliness, machinery and nature in Big Nurse and McMurphy, Kesey constructs a dichotomy of character through which the main themes of oppression and individualism are exposed.
From the initial introduction of Big Nurse, Kesey establishes her as a domineering presence, calm and cold. "With a gust of cold" Big Nurse occupies the passage, exuding authority and machine-like presence.

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Ken Kesey uses imagery to juxtapose the Big Nurse versus McMurphy to demonstrate how their relationship struggle represents power. The automatic authority Big Nurse is given is displayed by her physical description of being "smooth, calculated and precision made" showing she makes not mistakes. In contrast McMurphy's authority is given through his rumbustious description , described as having "scuffed leather... broad across the jaw and shoulders"

Each character gains power through associating different aspects of their personality in how they run the ward; Kesey investigation of power becomes linked with personality rather than an actual authoritative position.

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Ken Kesey contrasts the clean, cold imagery of Big Nurse with the rough, open imagery used to describe McMurphy. Her perfect, manufactured exterior, is exemplified through a description of her face that is "smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive baby doll".

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Ken Keesy vividly depicts the cold and cruel femininity of the Big nurse while contrasting it to McMurphy's brash and heated masculinity to set up the misogynistic struggle the characters face throughout the novel. A part of our very first introduction of the nurse. before we're even given physical description, the image of her "soft[ly]" and swift[ly]" opening the locked door the facility. The euphonous words "soft and swift"
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The underlying misogynistic tones in the novel are perfectly executed through the deceptively biased but obviously cold and cruel descriptions of the Big Nurse and the juxtaposed warm life of McMurphy.

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The stark juxtaposition Kesey establishes between the identities of the Big Nurse and McMurphy allows for the main struggle of vying for power to be introduced; by illustrating each through their different levels and sources of dominance, he sets up the tension between the two that will be seen throughout the book.
Within authority, there is power, however within power there is dominance. When Kesey writes "I know it's the Big Nurse by the way the lockworks cleave to the key" this exemplifies how much power she holds over them; she can cut them down so they fall around her feet like fallen raindrops, yet they need her still.

Though their authority and dominance is derived from their jarringly different personalities the tension still remains.

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Ken Kesey depicts the conflict between femininity and masculinity by juxtaposing Big Nurse and McMurphy,  the latter being the representation of freedom  and masculinity at its core describing McMurphy's actions as independent and vivacious while Big Nurse is portrayed as a cold, mechanical and perfect machine.
The first demonstration of independence from external factors of McMurphy is shown when Chief describes him "There's no move to stop him, no move to say anything."

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Kesey's description of Big Nurse as an enigma of contrasting and clashing imagery paints her untrustworthy; in direct contrast is Chief's which builds him as a forward and trustworthy character.  During her physical description, Big Nurse's fingernail polish is described as a "color so hot or cold if she touches you with it you can't tell which", this insinuates that her

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Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, vividly juxtaposes the sterile and clean nature of Big Nurse with the rambunctious, colorful, and human McMurphy in order to establish a foil between the two characters, thus allowing for a conflict to occur. For instance, as depicted by Chief, Big Nurse's movements are described as "precise, automatic gesture," and her face is described as "smooth, calculated, and precision-made."
In doing so, Big Nurse is nearly described as inhuman in order to demonize her (when contrasted with McMurphy's boots and more natural complexion.)

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Ken Kesey juxtaposes the very pristine, clean and mechanical imagery associated with Big Nurse with the rough and worn imagery of  McMurphy in order to immediately establish the two people and personalities that will struggle for power in the mental institution. When initially introducing Big Nurse at the beginning of the novel, Kesey makes it immediately known that Big Nurse's present is cold, calm and calculated, "Her  face is smooth, calculated, and precision made."

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The abundance of texture and mechanical imagery within Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest given to describe Big Nurse and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the antagonizing characters within the novel, allow for the immediate introduction of moral and sexual clashes between the two. Order and sterilization are continuously emphasized in the description of the Big Nurse: "...the lockworks cleave to the key.... her fingers [trailing] across the polished steel...."

The demonization of the elevation of feminine power at the expense of masculinity thus is further exposed by the ability of the Nurse to maintain order despite the temptations that McMurphy imposes upon the ward, leading to a question in the power of the sexes and morality in an insane situation.

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Kesey portrays Big Nurse and McMurphy's character through the use of precise, calculated, and mechanical and more laid back and natural imagery to these characters respectively, showing their role and alignment within the novel. In Big Nurse's case, it's shown even before she is seen: "I know it's the Big Nurse by the way the lockworks cleave to the key, soft and swift and familiar she been around locks so long".

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Kesey characterizes the Big Nurse with precise, sterile, and mechanical imagery and subsequently introduces McMurphy as an authentic and boisterous opposing force to her cleanliness, and through this he sets up an immediate conflict between malicious order and  enticing chaos in the ward.

The Big Nurse exposes no symptoms of humanity or emotion, her face "smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive baby doll" and each of her movements "precise [and] automatic".

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By juxtaposing precision with unruliness, machine and nature in

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Kesey characterizes the dichotomy between the Big Nurse and McMurphy through the combination of mechanical imagery and natural imagery to establish an immediate power struggle. Even the appearance of the Big Nurse is "smooth, calculated, and precision made," reflecting her impersonal nature and the iron fist she rules the mental ward with.

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The brisk accentuation of imagery Ken Kesey places on Big Nurse's mechanical precision and control drastically contrast McMurphy's chaotic, swaggering entrance, which gives the reader an early look at  themes that consistently clash throughout the book. As written in the text, the Big Nurse has precise, automatic gestures:She stops and nods at some of the patients...She nods once at each."

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Through the juxtaposition between the Big Nurse and McMurphy, Ken Kesey highlights the machine-like characteristics of the nurse as well as McMurphy's loose image in order to create conflict between society's pressures and the struggle for identity.  Big Nurse's bag containing "thousands of parts she aims to use in her duties today - wheels and gears" emphasizes the power in her inhumanity, which allows to keep silent control over the hospital. By contrasting the images of Big Nurse and McMurphy, Kesey proves that

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Ken Kesey juxtaposes the doll-like and sterile imagery of the Big Nurse to the very masculine and unkempt McMurphy to express this constant battle between order and chaos in a mental institution. The Big Nurse is introduced as this "smooth, calculated, and precision-made.."  face to emphasize

This misogynistic thematic element created by Kesey is best illustrated through the Big Nurse and McMurphy, who serve as foils throughout the entire novel.

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When comparing the Big Nurse to McMurphy, Kesey contrasts the  two characters by utilizing two types of imagery-precise, mechanical, and flawless for the Big Nurse but unkempt, imperfect, and loud for McMurphy- and by soing so, Kesey matches up nature against machine. Kesey describes the Big Nurse as being "smooth, calculated, and precision-made" that shows exactly how mechanical and exact she is, just like a machine is precise in its every action.

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Ken Kesey chooses to compare the differences between Big Nurse and McMurphy by utilizing contrasting imagery of masculine ruggedness of McMurphy and the feminine features of Big Nurse. He does this so by describing McMurphy's masculine features like  "The way he talks, his wink, his loud talk, his swagger all remind me of a car salesman or a stock auctioneer-", which show also the power and intimidation he has over everyone.
Kesey’s juxtaposition of elements for each character show how both McMurphy and Big Nurse, although against each other in the novel, complement each other, rather than seem distant

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Ken Kesey imposes characteristics on both femininity and masculinity - cold, mechanical vs. warm, hearty - to reveal Big Nurse and McMurphy as dichotomous characters, and through this, Kesey hints at an inevitable, growing turbulence that eventually becomes the main source of conflict throughout the novel. Immediately, Kesey utilizes cacophonous phrasing when detailing the Big Nurses face, "smooth, calculated, and precision-made."

Kesey explores the psychology of authority, revealing the clash between McMurphy's masculinity and Big Nurse's femininity as proxies for the true ideological struggle - autonomy against autocracy.

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Ken Kesey, the author of the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, contrasts the identifying aspects of the Big Nurse, describing her with imagery lacking in warmth and compassion, in comparison with those describing Randle McMurphy, which gives more of a free-spirited and emotional qualtiy to his personality, in order to reveal the the clash of feminity and masculinity between these two leaders in the ward.The Big Nurse, the antagonist of the novel, is viewed as "smooth, calculated, and precision-made", a manufactured machine with the one slight flaw. On the other hand, McMurphy is "loud and full of hell"; he is irrational and reckless.

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Kesey establishes a stark contrast between Big Nurse and McMurphy, characterizing the latter as naturalistic and the former as mechanical, to foreshadow the inevitable conflict. Her face, much like her composure, is described as "smooth, calculated, and precision-made."

McMurphy is able to unearth the human qualities in the patients, and Big Nurse loses her power when she becomes just like McMurphy and the patients- a human being.

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Throughout the descriptions of McMurphy and Big Nurse, Kesey immediately introduces Big Nurse as the antagonist by introducing feministic feautures such as, "...like an expensive baby doll..big womanly breasts"  and mechanical imagery to the descriptions in order to create a contrast between the two characters

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By illustrating the Big Nurse as cold and calculating  while juxtaposing her with McMurphy's vivacious and flamboyant attitude, Ken Kesey exposes the controlling atmosphere present in the mental hospital and subsequently introduces the conflict between oppression and freedom. Chief describes the Big Nurse as carrying "parts she aims to use in her duties... wheels and gears, cogs polished to a hard glitter...rolls of copper wire."

This turmoil between individualism and control as well as the repressive environment in the mental ward, therefore, reflect the growing power of the government in society, the Combine, during the progression of the 20th century.

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Ken Kesey implements the clashing of themes and characters through the imagery of nature verses machine; the conflict between the two forces of the Big Nurse and the newcomer, R.P. McMurphy, creates the tension that foreshadows the long battle for power.
The Big Nurse is given a negative connotation from the very beginning of her introduction, for Kesey associated her with cold, sterile machinery: "She nods once to each. Precise, automatic gesture. Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made..."

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In this novel Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey magnifies the contrast between the Big nureandMcmurphy with the use of visual imagery

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Ken Kesey exaggerates the polar differences between the Big Nurse and McMurphy by contrasting imagery of meticulous machinery and rough swagger, creating the idea that the two characters differ not only in fundamental values but also in visual behavior. The Big Nurse's introduction reflects her obsessive need for control as her appearance is described as having the same sharp order she wishes to see in others: "Precise, automatic gesture. Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made" (Kesey).

The Big Nurse and McMurphy ultimately represent the battle between exaggerated control by an omnipotent hidden power versus individual freedom.

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Ken Kesey accentuates the divergence of schemes between the Big Nurse and the Chief; nevertheless, the Big Nurse's image is mechanical and accurate and the Chief's is comforting and boisterous. The two characters come together at a mental hospital with a restricted society, which represents a juxtaposition.
- mention the author (Ken Kesey)
- have purpose (example of an effect and what it does)
- don't use the word "uses"