One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
If someone else was manipulating and the engineering one’s idea of society and normality, what would one expect? This is the case in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, articulates the novel, and the setting takes place in an insane asylum with a strict tyrannical administrator, Nurse Ratched. In addition, “Big Nurse Ratched” is considerably the representative of society as she tries to mold everyone into her picture-perfect vision. Throughout the novel, Kesey used a collection of literary devices such as analogy, symbolism, situational irony, and imagery to imply the central theme of the novel, the allegory to 1960's American Society.
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The patients would retreat and inhabit the fog because “[They] needed to feel safe from The Combine,” that evil mechanical power whose stronghold was the mental hospital, and whose chief instrument was Big Nurse Ratched as stated by Ian Currie. In addition, they did not have the audacity to step outside and contest Big Nurse in the manner that McMurphy could. In fact, the fog conceals the reality in the ward and gives the patients a mental asylum so they never have to directly confront Nurse Rached. Chief Bromden, as well as many others, withdraws into his memories and flashbacks accordingly to avoid facing the reality of the institution as well as the nurse. Chief implies that the “ward hasn’t really fogged the place up ever since McMurphy got [there],” (184) to show that he brings the inspiration needed for the compliant patients to build up the courage needed to defy the Big Nurse’s authority. In a sense, McMurphy also represents the wind needed to blow away the …show more content…
Ideally, the ward is a place with pure solemnity and solidarity, but as McMurphy commences to interact more with the patient's, Harding emphasizes how he exposed the “first actual laughter ever heard in years”. Consequently as the days went by, they began to exhibit how much their mental conditions had improved simply by laughing along with the “comedian”. "[Harding] does his best to laugh. A sound comes out like a nail being crowbarred out of a plank of green pine." (62) and “Everybody laughed... This wasn't the way things used to be before that damned redhead came around" (271) expresses how Harding is directly showing how big of a role McMurphy has played towards the patients as he has saved them from salvation, as well as the excitement he is bringing into their everyday lifestyle considering that they are long-term patients at the
If someone else was manipulating and the engineering one’s idea of society and normality, what would one expect? This is the case in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, articulates the novel, and the setting takes place in an insane asylum with a strict tyrannical administrator, Nurse Ratched. In addition, “Big Nurse Ratched” is considerably the representative of society as she tries to mold everyone into her picture-perfect vision. Throughout the novel, Kesey used a collection of literary devices such as analogy, symbolism, situational irony, and imagery to imply the central theme of the novel, the allegory to 1960's American Society.
For starters, …show more content…
The patients would retreat and inhabit the fog because “[They] needed to feel safe from The Combine,” that evil mechanical power whose stronghold was the mental hospital, and whose chief instrument was Big Nurse Ratched as stated by Ian Currie. In addition, they did not have the audacity to step outside and contest Big Nurse in the manner that McMurphy could. In fact, the fog conceals the reality in the ward and gives the patients a mental asylum so they never have to directly confront Nurse Rached. Chief Bromden, as well as many others, withdraws into his memories and flashbacks accordingly to avoid facing the reality of the institution as well as the nurse. Chief implies that the “ward hasn’t really fogged the place up ever since McMurphy got [there],” (184) to show that he brings the inspiration needed for the compliant patients to build up the courage needed to defy the Big Nurse’s authority. In a sense, McMurphy also represents the wind needed to blow away the …show more content…
Ideally, the ward is a place with pure solemnity and solidarity, but as McMurphy commences to interact more with the patient's, Harding emphasizes how he exposed the “first actual laughter ever heard in years”. Consequently as the days went by, they began to exhibit how much their mental conditions had improved simply by laughing along with the “comedian”. "[Harding] does his best to laugh. A sound comes out like a nail being crowbarred out of a plank of green pine." (62) and “Everybody laughed... This wasn't the way things used to be before that damned redhead came around" (271) expresses how Harding is directly showing how big of a role McMurphy has played towards the patients as he has saved them from salvation, as well as the excitement he is bringing into their everyday lifestyle considering that they are long-term patients at the