Rose Garden Asylum
Recognizing Our Patients as the Beautiful Roses They Are
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Class: Chronic
Voluntary or Committed: Committed
Randle Patrick McMurphy was a redheaded, tattoo and scar covered Irish-American man full of the charms of a bad ass. He was charged with battery, gambling, and even rape (which he often brags about). Instead of spending his time in jail, he plead insane for his overzealous and almost hyperactive disposition and came to our asylum to live the life of luxury.
When he first came into our asylum, he showed off his toothy, trouble-making grin. He thought he was going to have an easy life here without worries. But when he and our head nurse, Nurse Ratched, met eyes, he knew they would clash heads sooner or later.
McMurphy showed all the other patients how to have self-respect and, frankly, how to live life. He served as a driving spirit and role model for the other patients of the asylum, he truly left his mark.
McMurphy didn't believe in going with the norm, which is why he didn't like Nurse Ratched, who is seen like a heroin and goddess to all the other patients of our asylum. Eventually, Nurse Ratched was extremely fed up with McMurphy's antics and used lobotomy to try to cure him, only to destroy him mentally. Chief Bromden, another one of our patients, felt deep inside of him that McMurphy would only suffer if he continued his life after the terrible side effects of the lobotomy and released McMurphy's naturally free spirit from his body.
We all hope McMurphy is living contently as a spirit. May he rest soundly.
What Would McMurphy Say?
- “Jesus, I mean you guys do nothing but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out? What do you think you are for Christ sake, crazy or something? Well, you’re not! You’re not! You’re no crazier than the average asshole out walking around on the streets” (Part 1).
- "But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing" (Part 1).
- "I watched and tried to figure out what he would have done. I was only sure of one thing: he wouldn't have left something like that sit there in the day room with his name tacked on it for twenty or thirty years so the Big Nurse could use it as an example of what can happen if you buck the system. I was sure of that" (Part 3).
