When someone abuses a large amount of power, that individual can lose all of their power. The struggle against someone who abuses their power is best described in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. When someone abuses their power, they can impose certain feelings and actions on others. If someone tries to hide their personality, . Finally, if someone abuses their power and is constantly challenged by another individual who tries to take away the power abuser's power, the abuser will always be afraid of their challenger. When someone abuses their power and takes complete control, they can quickly lose all their power and respect. If someone abuses their power, they can impose certain feelings and actions. In the novel, Mrs. Ratched attempts to hide her personality from the patients at the hospital, so that she can maintain her level of power and control over them. If someone does something to annoy Ms. Ratched while no one is nearby, she will show her true hate personality to get angry at the people who annoyed her. In the novel, Chief Bromden says, "She swells and swells until her back splits." take out the white uniform. . . She looks around, turning her huge head. No one to see. . . Then she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretching into an open growl, and she explodes bigger and bigger. . . all the patients start coming out to see what the commotion is, and she has to transform before she is taken into the form of her true, hideous self” (5). When other patients come to see what's going on, Mrs. Ratched must quickly hide her personality so that she can maintain her respect, power, and control over everyone in her department. If patients saw that Mrs. Ratched could get angry and that she hid her personality, they would realize that they are not rabbits after all and that she is not a "good strong wolf", like they believed it before. When patient RP McMurphy, the hospital patient who tries to remove all Mrs. Ratched in the novel, just removed the bathroom, which served as a playroom, from the patients, this made McMurphy angry, so he decided to do it. something subtle to get back at Mrs. Ratched. In the novel it says: “The Big Nurse's eyes bulged as he approached. . . He stopped outside his window and he said in his slowest, deepest drawl that he thought he could use one of the cigarettes he bought this morning, then he ran his hand through it the glass. . . He took one of the cigarette cartons with his name on it and took out a pack. . . “I’m sure I’m sorry ma’am,” he said. “Damn, but I am. This window was so clean that I completely forgot it was there” (201). This quote demonstrates that even though Mrs. Ratched has more power than McMurphy, she is still afraid of him and that he might do something to take away her power or do something to physically harm her. This also demonstrates the power McMurphy has gained over Mrs. Ratched thus far. In the novel, Mrs. Ratched attempts to take away all the power McMurphy gained over her by accusing McMurphy of making the lives of hospital patients worse and that McMurphy was the cause of the deaths of patients William Bibbit and Charles Cheswick. . This angers McMurphy and causes him to choke her with the intention of killing her.