In Kesey's OFOCN machines seem to take crucial place presenting both chief's perspective on the ward and the symbolic meaning of these bizarre movements happening across the hospital. His almost delusional descriptions give place to an intricate system of machines that control the patients and allow Nurse Ratchet's full control over their minds. Its these images that really open our minds to understand the degree of control thats ongoing all throughout the ward.
"...she wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hairlike wires too small for anybody’s eye but mine; I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants." (19)
Machine stand as a total personification of control and helps Kesey send us that image of complete regulation and order inflicted in the patients minds. They hide behind the walls and work in cooperation with each other to keep everything in the ward under control. It represents how the nurse is able to exert her power giving it more momentum in a mechanical almost physical way ignoring the fact that her tactics are straight out psychological. Those machines we don't see, but they are moving everything around just as she wants it to be and exemplify the symbolic meaning of power through strong images we could consider being Chief's madness.
In the end machines are almost automated objects that work under someone else's control just as these patients in the hospital ward.
"...she wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hairlike wires too small for anybody’s eye but mine; I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants." (19)Machine stand as a total personification of control and helps Kesey send us that image of complete regulation and order inflicted in the patients minds. They hide behind the walls and work in cooperation with each other to keep everything in the ward under control. It represents how the nurse is able to exert her power giving it more momentum in a mechanical almost physical way ignoring the fact that her tactics are straight out psychological. Those machines we don't see, but they are moving everything around just as she wants it to be and exemplify the symbolic meaning of power through strong images we could consider being Chief's madness.
In the end machines are almost automated objects that work under someone else's control just as these patients in the hospital ward.
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