In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nurse Ratched, or Big Nurse, seems to be immediately portrayed as the villain. She wants everything her way, and she does that at everyone else's expense. When McMurphy, the "new guy" comes to the ward, he seems to be the hero. He immediately makes friends with everyone, making sure to shake everyone's hands, including the people who can't even move. We see him as the hero because he is trying to make things right and he rebels against the twisted environment Big Nurse has created. We even hear Bromden say that McMurphy's laugh is the first true laugh they've heard in years. That almost creates a response that everyone trusts him. However, since McMurphy rebels, we have to categorize him as an antihero because while he doesn't do things that are necessarily right or moral, what he does is in the best interest of everyone and he's standing up against an abusive and powerful dictator. This makes him an antihero because we are still for him, even though he breaks rules.
Any other characters at this point don't have a category because we don't see them as really a hero or villain; therefore, they remain characters that just fill in the space for the moment.
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