said he was finally able to stick up for himself and he was ready to escape with McMurphy.Several days after the fishing trip, McMurphy gets in trouble again. A couple of men, helpers of the Big Nurse, were bullying one of the patients, a friend of McMurphy. To protect his friend he fights the helpers. As a result of this, McMurphy was sent to "disturbed", a higher floor where all the people are "really gone". In disturbed, McMurphy received electroshock therapy (electricity through the head)several times. This was suppose to mess his head up, but it didn't phase him. McMurphy went back to the floor where his buddies were and continued his pranks and jokes. The on going battle between McMurphy and the Big Nurse has several important meanings. "McMurphy... represents all the Big Nurse needs to control.... He is the stud, she is the ‘ball cutter'; he is the brawler, she the manufacturer of docility" (Martin 315). This sums up that she is bad and he is good. McMurphy is showing the patients why they shouldn't take her crap. She shuns the whole idea of not having total control of the whole institute. McMurphy pulls his pranks to show that the "Big Nurse" isn't so big so that the patients can stick up for themselves. For his last huge stunt, McMurphy stages a party on the ward while the Big Nurse is away. For a cut of the action, the security guard helps McMurphy sneak two prostitutes and alcohol onto the ward. The Big Nurse returns unexpectedly and finds out about the party. The Big Nurse sees that one of the patients was sleeping a with prostitute. She threatens this patient by saying that she would tell his mother. This patient was so intimidated that he killed himself. The Big Nurse blamed McMurphy for the suicide. McMurphy is so furious that he strangles her almost to death. Because of his actions, the Big Nurse makes McMurphy get a lobotomy (pieces of his brain removed) and turns him into a vegetable. Chi...
