Bromden sees society as a giant machine. At the beginning of the book he explains how Big Nurse is very machine-like. He explains, "she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load... A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what would of otherwise been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it" (page 5-6). When he talks about her movements, he explains how they are precise and automatic, very machine-like. When she is first introduced to us, she is carrying a bag full of gears and wheels. Big nurse is seen as a machine by Chief and is trys to turn all the patients into machines before setting them free into the world. She has mostly all the power and is inhuman in the way she treats all the patients.