Allusions In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey, they patients and/or characters are often compared to and made reference to the Bible and to the religion of Christianity. Kesey creates the topic of the enviroment in the ward to be religious and Christian by comparing multiple incidents and situations to the characters and the plot itself. Scenarios where he creates the mood of religion was with the situation with Ellis a biblical reference, the fishing trip that they all went on, and the time when McMurphy was preparing for the electric shock therapy. He uses the topic of religion to portray from a religious standpoint how you can see their situations and patients in a different way. The first mention of the Christianity aspect was when …show more content…
The reason why this is a allusion is because this scene is almost the process of becoming a martyr, and this book since McMurphy was the Christ figure, he enabled Chief to become a martyr. When McMurphy was getting ready for his lobotomy, he would be turned into a vegatable, standing “along next to the Vegetables” (Kesey 321), which was constantly going through Bromden’s mind like McMurphy will be gone or not the same. He and McMurphy had made a pact on where the would not let each other become a zombie in the ward, wandering aimlessly like one. Then Chief decided to kill him to set him free from the ward which made him feel guilty because McMurphy’s “expression hadn’t change from the blank” (Kesey 323). With Justin, the martyr of Jesus, he had values and skills more than what Bromden had. He was doing Christ’s work by spreadding the message of Christianity throughout the empire at the time. Compared to Bromden his actions were very impacting because Bromden effected a few people such as Scanlon and the other patients while, Justin had impacted quite a lot in the empire. The similarity betwen them is their motivation and reasoning. Chief Bromden had made a promise with Bromden saying he would not let him be a zombie, so when he decided to kill him which was the rational decision for their deal. However, when it came to Justin, the reason why he had continue Jesus’s teaching was because he thought Christianity “had the only rational creed” and would make more sense than the polytheistic view they had. When Chief became a martyr, it definitely changed his views on the world outside of the ward because he was not the same at the end. He was open to leaving first of all, and he saw that the world had changed than what he remembered 20 years ago. It gave him his normality back because in the end he was chatting and he was making desicions that would benefit him in the