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McMurphy is a tragic hero who has many reasons that leads to his incentable downfall. McMurphy is a patient inside a ward with cronics and acutes. McMurphy enters the ward not knowing the policy of the ward causing mayhem by going against policy rules due to his actions. I think that his action is the spark to his incentable downfall. This is a scene of his actions, challenging the Big Nurse, "It's okay, Doc. It …

…to his death. I also feel sympathy for McMurphy because when he realised that it was impossible to leave the ward, instead of continuing to continue his actions, which lead him into staying. He decided that if the could change the acutes minds about staying and make them stronger even by sacrificing himself he would do it. Unlike Macbeth who knew what lied ahead, McMurphy didn't and that's why shouldn't have died in the end.