Overall, looking at both main characters Luke and Randall they are very similar in their ways of being a leader and displaying their masculinity. Both play a leader in their group, Luke's being the prisoners, and Randall's being the mental patients. In the same way they are both fighting against a higher authority figure for their manhood and freedom. Luke is trying to break free from the prison, because he thinks he deserves more manhood than digging ditches and being punished by sleeping in the box. Randall realizes that most of the men on the ward are not committed and wants to fight for them to gain back their manhood, because he feels like its the Big Nurse's fault that they don't feel confident enough to go back out into the real world. When both of them arrive at their place of punishment they both turn the place upside down (Randall more than Luke) by shaking up the place and bending rules and such. All of the other men in both places look to them for leadership, because they don't know how to, or aren't ready to take on the higher authority by themselves.
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I agree that McMurphy and Luke are natural leaders and were not meant to follow authority. They were both trying to break free of something they didnt believe they should be held captive for. Luke and McMurphy were trying to fight for themselves and were trying to be leaders for the others to follow. I think they both meant well even if they didn't always have the right way of showing it.
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