Peoples' ability to use power to control and manipulate situations and people is a skill not many people have. Unfortunately this skill can lead to conflict as it did in Ken Kesely's novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest when McMurphy and Nurse Ratched meet each other.         McMurphy has been after Nurse Ratched's power right from the beginning. After the first group meeting he pointed out that the meeting was like a 'pecking party'. The …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…from Nurse Ratched.         He got the men to stand up for themselves and each other. He got them doing things they may have never done in their whole life, and they loved him for that. If it wasn't for McMurphy I believe that they would have stayed in that hospital maybe until they died, because all the nurse seemed to do was bring down their self-esteem, probably to make herself look better and feel better.