Published 19:39 IST, September 21st 2020

What happens to Nurse Ratched at the end? Know what happened to her in the book & show

What happens to Nurse Ratched at the end of the book? Why does McMurphy fight Nurse Ratched? 5 plot questions the audience might asking after watching it.

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Ratched is latest Netflix series that released on September 18. It stars Sarah Paulson, Cynthia x, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Fin Wittrock, Jon Jon Briones and Charlie Carver. series has gained a lot of attention although a few parts still remain confusing for viewers. Here are five plot questions that one might wonder about after watching Ratched on Netflix.

What happens to Nurse Ratched at end of book?

Nurse Ratched on Netflix is based on popular contemporary fiction, One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Netflix series is sort of like a prequel to incidents of vel. In book, Ratched blames McMurphy for Billy's death. Furious, McMurphy attacks Ratched and strangles her. He also tears off her clos for all or inmates to see. He is taken away to Disturbed facility. 

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A week after incident, Ratched comes back weeks later, bruised from incident. However, injuries left her unable to speak and thus her one tool of dominance over patients is lost. McMurphy still remains in asylum but in a vegetable state and is later smored by a pillow by Chief as an act of kindness. 

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Why does McMurphy fight Nurse Ratched?

McMurphy is a rar boisterous patient who makes a grand entry in handcuffs and flanked by two guards. He is actually sane but pretends neless to avoid jail time. He is rebellious and raucous, something that Nurse Ratched would have any of. But he still keeps up his antics. 

Towards end of vel, one night, McMurphy brings in his girlfriend candy inside facility and Billy (a patient with an unnatural fixation with his mor) goes to bed with her. When Ratched finds out, she takes Billy's mor's name to make him feel ashamed. patient does so and indeed but so much so that he commits suicide. When McMurphy comes to kw of it he confronts Ratched who furr blames it all on him, This is why McMurphy fights Nurse Ratched. 

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How does Ratched maintain power over her patients?

Nurse Ratched presents a doll-like face with a steel heart inside. She pretends to be extremely merciful and beneficial towards patients but operates through shaming her patients. This tactic ultimately makes hapless souls submit to her tyranny. She keeps records of all weak spots. 

During her group meetings, patients try to please her by exposing her darkest secrets but n she makes m feel ashamed for it. Thus, Ratched maintains power over her patients through tactics of shame and guilt. She also believes in policy of divide and rule while dealing with her patients. 

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Who wins battle in end of Nurse Ratched or McMurphy?

ne wins battle metaphorically. McMurphy mans to expose Nurse Ratched as a sexual being when he tore off her clos. or inmates n failed to recognise her power personified and see her for sexual, flawed being that she is. While McMurphy tries to strangle her, he also dams her to point that Ratched cant speak anymore, losing only tool which helped her assert her power. However, he himself becomes that which Ratched wanted all along, a vegetable with physical or mental control of his own. 

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On or hand, Nurse Ratched loses her authority and power over inmates. While most of m checked out of facility, those that remain after scuffle do t recognise as Authority any longer. However, she wins over McMurphy finally in being able to curb him according to protocols of mental facility and he can think longer. 

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Ratched ending

Throughout series, Nurse Ratched tries to keep her foster bror from facing death penalty. However, in end, she understands that it can be warded off longer and she tries to make death as quick as possible. Edmund comes to kw of Ratched's plan to euthanise him and he is shocked. He escapes with deranged Charlotte in Dr Haver’s old car. Ratched catches a glimpse of him on ro and realises he has become a danger to her life. 

series n skips three years and w Ratched is living with Gwendolyn who is w on a path to remission. Ratched is still scared her bror might come to kill her one day. However, a phone call explains that he is at some bar and Ratched warns him that she will be rey for him if he comes. series ends with Edmund and Charlotte being still ro and joined by a man Louise who kws where Ratched lives. 

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19:39 IST, September 21st 2020