As defined in dictionary.com, Schizophrenia is "a severe
mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following
features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized
speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations."
First
of all, we know Chief Bromden is deaf, but he has chosen for years not to speak a word.
He has maintained this charade for so long that everyone on the ward, both patients and
workers, take it as a fact that he's deaf. This falls under the sympton of social
isolation because he purposely excludes himself from all the other
patients.
He also has elaborate and frequently
occuring hallucinations that the ward is some giant mechanism that makes this at times
ear piercing mechanical noise. The reader can tell he's delusional because nobody
notices it but him.
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