Is McMurphy Crazy?

I looked up the trailer for the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest movie (which I decided not to share as it was a bit of a spoiler for the end of the novel) and I noticed that Jack Nicholson, the actor who plays the crazy man in "The Shining" was cast as McMurphy in the movie. From what I have seen of the film, Nicholson portrays McMurphy to be a bit crazier than I imagined the character to be based on the text; though this may be partially due my bias as an avid "Shining" fan. I looked up the dates and saw that the Cuckoo's Nest movie was made after "The Shining" so the directors must have known what they were doing in casting Nicholson as McMurphy. This leads me to believe that they viewed McMurphy as crazier than I did based on the novel. What do you think? Is McMurphy crazy?
-Becca

inhuman(e)

So at the beginning of the book I saw Nurse Ratched as a horrible person and the ward as a torture facility. I thought about how inhuman the nurse was because of what she does to the patients and how she lets the Black Boys treat them. Because of her cruel treatment I thought the patients lived in fear of the authority. The patients' unideal way of living shows how inhumane the facility is. The hospital is supposed to help patients go back Outside to their normal lives, but it is preparing them through torture instead of help and learning. If the hospital is actually helping the patients, it is understandable to treat them rough at first, but I do not believe the cruel treatment is necessary.

So my questions for you guys are:
What causes what? Is Nurse Ratched's inhuman way of treating her patients causing the ward to be inhumane? Or, does the ward have to be inhumane (in order to help the patients) and that is what makes Nurse Ratched's actions inhuman?

Ken Kesey doppelgänger

This man....

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are possibly twins/brothers/father and son??????




That is all.

Contemporary Combine?