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The game ruled by the Big Nurse and the Combine is a way of controlling patients, but it is not the game advocated by Schiller, and the purpose of Big Nurse in suppressing McMurphy is to suppress his humanity and free spirit. Furthermore, McM urphy’s free activities that went through from indoor to outdoor activities is the true free play. He tries to inspire the patients’ spirit of “the whole man” with different activities. Ken Kesey wants to build a kingdom full of beauty and freedom with the help of McMurphy’s spirit in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, just as Schiller also wants to build an aesthetic kingdom with the help of culture to eliminate human’s alienation and achieve the perfection of human nature. Their beautiful vision was only an unrealistic idea in society at that time, but it was with the enlightenment of culture and thought that more people could realize the value of freedom and beauty. 

 McMurphy, a positive and aggressive player in the chaotic and rigid world, strives to pursue the nature of the whole man, but he cannot control and change his own destiny. Because of the spirit of these deviant “madmen” who are desperate to pursue freedom, more and more people find the meaning of existence and the value of freedom in a chaotic and confusing life. In this book, McMurphy inspires Chief Bromden to find his identity and sense of belonging and influences other patients, such as Harding, Cheswick, and Scanlon, whose sense of freedom and rebellion is slowly awakening. 

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