From the moment he was introduced, McMurphy impressed every patient in the asylum. Instead of bending to society's rules and ideas, he went against the norm and was not ashamed of being himself. For this reason, he was the ideal hero to save patients from declining self-respect. He encouraged those around him to challenge rules and reason by opening their eyes to the world, saying for example: “People [will try] to make you weak so they can fall in line, follow their rules, live the way they want you to. face. And the best way to do that, to make you give in, is to weaken you by taking yourself where it hurts the most. Through these means, he managed to win over Nurse Ratched and her attempts to adapt her patients to society's beliefs. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest strikingly demonstrates the individual's struggle to maintain a sense of uniqueness in relation to society. In the novel, McMurphy fought to save the patients of the asylum from Nurse Ratched's (society's) efforts to take away their self-respect and force them to sacrifice their individuality. Life is full of contradictions and people who maliciously impose ideas on others about what is normal and acceptable. Even though McMurphy won the battle against Nurse Ratched, it wasn't war; society still threatened the world in Kesey's novel as it threatens the world of dreams and possibilities