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…showed last 75 words of 609 total…Ratched, or Liberated Sexuality vs. Repressed Sexuality. In the end, both characters are destroyed by each other. When McMurphy strips the uniform off of Nurse Ratched it sexually liberates her. Nurse Ratched sexually represses McMurphy through lobotomy, or as it was said in the novel, a form of castration. The sexual motif is a big part of the book, and in the end, neither party survives for they are destroyed by the other. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**