One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - We voted as a class that we would watch the rest (10 minutes) on Monday and the question sheet would be due on Tuesday. Keep in mind you also have your instagram assignment due on Tuesday as well :) If you want to get a head start, you can view the movie at this link:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=one+flew+over+the+cuckoo%27s+nest+full+movie&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=D39CB5FE37F324F2727CD39CB5FE37F324F2727C

Assignment: (I can't figure out how to upload files!)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Film Study

Counterculture author Ken Kesey's best-selling novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is based on his experiences working in the psychiatric ward of a Veterans' Administration hospital. Kesey is motivated by the premise that the patients he sees don't really have mental illnesses; they simply behave in ways a rigid society is unwilling to accept. Themes deal with conformity vs nonconformity, confinement vs freedom,

Using some personality traits or behaviours,  describe the following characters: (14 mks)

Billy Bibbit	Candy	Cheswick	Chief Bromden	Dr. John Spivey	Fredrickson	Harding
Martini	Nurse Ratched	Rose	R.P McMurphy	Taber	Turkle	Washington

 

Describe how Nurse Ratched uses humiliation or degradation to treat her patients inhumanely: (5 mks)

 
 

 

Describe some of the treatments the hospital uses and what the intended purposes are. Are these still in use today? Why or why not? (8 mks)

 

 

Does this movie effectively remove stigmas of mental illness, or do they reinforce them? Explain (5 mks)

 


 

Choose one character and describe how each of the psychological approaches would attempt to explain their behaviour or motivation for their actions (you can speculate!) (3 mks each = 18 mks)

Character: ______________________________________________

 

Psychoanalytic
Cognitive
Behavioural
Humanistic
Biological
Sociocultural