Analyzing Evil: Nurse Ratched

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• DP

  @dpolitoaaa · 5 years ago

  she won an academy award for this performance and when accepting her award she said: "thank you all for hating me so much..."

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• CO

  @comradefaroh2179 · 5 years ago

  "Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged."- Jean Luc Picard

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• HE

  @heavymeddle28 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Oooh... I've met her. Many times in different forms. She's out there. Sadly there's millions of her

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• LE

  @leokimvideo · 2 years ago

  Nurse Ratched reminded me of how some teachers treated students at schools prior to the 1990's. It was unfortunately fairly common for psychological abuse to occur. Even something as simple as a invented nickname or exposure of a academic weakness to others in your class. And thats just the tip of the iceberg.

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• MI

  @mirrorXshard · 5 years ago

  Nurse Ratched is a brilliant villain because she exposes how easy it is to treat people like animals when the system is on your side. You can keep going home with a contented smile every night, knowing that you've "done your job," never needing to ponder the consequences of your actions.

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• IM

  @imogenimeson664 · 5 years ago

  The scary and sad thing is so-called 'care workers' like this, do actually exist in real life.

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• RE

  @RedGirl006 · 6 years ago

  She is horrifying because Nurse Ratched exists, she is real. She can be a teacher, a nurse, anyone with some authority or control over our lives.

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• CA

  @cainmathewson1857 · 3 years ago

  The scariest thing about the character was just how much she resembles someone else. Everyone knows a nurse ratched

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• TU

  @Tummy_Ache · 6 years ago (edited)

  On my first full day in the psych ward, not knowing the smoking rules, I asked if I could go smoke a cigarette. The nurse smiled and handed me a cigarette. I said "thank you." Knowing I couldn't have a lighter, he said "so how you gonna light it"  laughing at me along with the other nurses. It's very far from the trauma that so many others experience in hospitals, but since it was meant to be a subtle dig at my inability to look after myself, it was dehumanizing enough to remember exactly how I felt in that moment 20 years later.

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• IN

  @InteleVisionHuman · 5 years ago

  She never accepts that Mac helped them more than she did.

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• MR

  @mr.mercury4247 · 5 years ago

  The scariest thing about this villain is that you've met one before, and you hated every minute of their existence in your presence.

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• DA

  @danomanno747 · 3 years ago

  I’ve seen the “Nurse Ratched” type: smug, know-it-all, vindictive, cruel. It’s amazing that these types often come from “helping professions”. The most devastating scene in the film is when Nurse Ratched causes Billy to commit suicide. The way she does it so casually makes it all the more monstrous.

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