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In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there was a fight for dominance between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched for control of the patients who existed in the safe nest of a mental institution after being left by their parents, waiting to be reborn with the arrival of a host bird. McMurphy, the heroic figure, was the host bird inspiring the patients to fly to freedom from the parasitic and oppressive psychiatric nest of the institution.