Comparing Brave New World 'And One Flew Over The Cuckoo'

The two authors Ken Kesey and Aldous Huxley each wrote brilliant works of fiction portraying the desires of our nation to enforce its control over the people. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Next by Ken Kesey takes place in Oregon during the fifties. The protagonist Chief Bromden and his fellow acquaintances are all part of a psychiatric ward that face the strict control of Nurse Ratched and attempt to overcome this oppression when a nonchalant Randle McMurphy is brought in and turns the lives of the patients and nurses upside down. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a somewhat disturbing novel depicting the World State’s scientific experimentation to detach the people of society from any form of emotions and personal expression. The dehumanized process of the birth combined with intensive conditioning from an early age allow the leaders to divide society into a caste system and create what they believe is a perfect world. …show more content…
John, who follows the ideas of Shakespeare, desires to not succumb to the World State forcing him to push aside his sexual yearning for Lenina. Both McMurphy and John’s failure to break free of harsh rulings lead to their inevitable deaths at the end of each respective novel. Each of the novels shares slivers of parallels between the plot and the real life escapades of the authors. Learning about the personal connections Kesey and Huxley made when writing their respective novels allow us to analyze their purpose for giving the protagonist the specific attributes they received. This gives the reader the advantage of observing a deeper meaning behind each