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According to Nietzsche, “human relations” as spread over the landscape of a man’s life become “enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically” to the point of becoming a “mobile army of metaphors” representing the truth from one’s perception. In other words, interpretations define one’s perception of truth, however they remain interpretations meaning they represent truth but “are illusion[s] about which one has forgotten that is what they are.” Within a ward illustrated in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, the author, creates powerful figures most notably Big Nurse and McMurphy, whose opinions become the “truth” to the patients. Furthermore, McMurphy and Big Nurse hold a meaning to the patients’ lives and daily attitudes as they use their power in terms of good and bad within the novel. Power, when realized and manipulated, can become something very bad to the point where the one in power seemingly runs the weak man’s life with a cold lack of remorse from the time they wake up to the time they go to sleep. In the novel, McMurphy becomes the only beacon of power and light. The patients have to struggle in a fog of paralyzing policies surrounded by a mass of Big Nur