Importance of humor and laughter in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest "There are three things that are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our understanding, we must do what we can with the third." In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, humor is present in a very powerful form. Normally, crazy people don't have the ability to laugh or find humor in something like us "normal" people. They live tragic lives, wandering day after day in the bland and depressing world of an asylum. They have forgotten how to live because they are under the authoritarian leadership of the head nurse and under the behavioral influence of drug doses and authoritarian nurses. The patients have no real existence and are essentially lifeless. As the Lord works in mysterious ways, Randall MacMurphy is "sent" to heal the asylum's patients. He shows them that laughing is good, and that laughing at yourself can sometimes be the best medicine. He is the comical healer who brings life to the asylum's otherwise desperate patients. MacMurphy seems to have an affinity for laughter. Essentially, it's an escape for him - it makes him feel good and, more importantly, it radiates to his friends and helps heal them. This book talks about so many things that it's hard to stay on one topic for long. time. In order to focus on laughter and laughter as a healing agent, I would like to look to other influential writers and thinkers to connect laughter and healing. Let's first see what laughter is according to Meriam Webster: laughter- n. a cause for joy. Using this simple definition, we can assume that laughter can come from any form of mirth or emotion such as triumph, contempt, relief, and almost any other emotion in existence. It's easy to imagine in your head different emotions underlying laughter; the sinister laughter of witches and ghosts, the hypocritical and fake laughter you hear after pointless and humorless attempts at jokes on the 6 p.m. news, to the silent laughter of mimes and clowns that fill the people around them of a feeling of happiness. These are all examples of what laughter is and how it is used. But why do we do it? What in nature created laughter and made it successful? ??

Essay / Importance of humor and laughter in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest "There are three things that are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our understanding, we must do what we can with the third." In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, humor is present in a very powerful form. Normally, crazy people don't have the ability to laugh or find humor in something like us "normal" people. They live tragic lives, wandering day after day in the bland and depressing world of an asylum. They have forgotten how to live because they are under the authoritarian leadership of the head nurse and under the behavioral influence of drug doses and authoritarian nurses. The patients have no real existence and are essentially lifeless. As the Lord works in mysterious ways, Randall MacMurphy is "sent" to heal the asylum's patients. He shows them that laughing is good, and that laughing at yourself can sometimes be the best medicine. He is the comical healer who brings life to the asylum's otherwise desperate patients. MacMurphy seems to have an affinity for laughter. Essentially, it's an escape for him - it makes him feel good and, more importantly, it radiates to his friends and helps heal them. This book talks about so many things that it's hard to stay on one topic for long. time. In order to focus on laughter and laughter as a healing agent, I would like to look to other influential writers and thinkers to connect laughter and healing. Let's first see what laughter is according to Meriam Webster: laughter- n. a cause for joy. Using this simple definition, we can assume that laughter can come from any form of mirth or emotion such as triumph, contempt, relief, and almost any other emotion in existence. It's easy to imagine in your head different emotions underlying laughter; the sinister laughter of witches and ghosts, the hypocritical and fake laughter you hear after pointless and humorless attempts at jokes on the 6 p.m. news, to the silent laughter of mimes and clowns that fill the people around them of a feeling of happiness. These are all examples of what laughter is and how it is used. But why do we do it? What in nature created laughter and made it successful? ??

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