One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Gender Roles

Gender stereotypes have played a huge role in society for many centuries, and still today. The idea of gender stereotypes has been discovered within many situations, whether that be in a workforce, sports organization, educational realm, or in a home setting. The idea of gender roles and gender stereotypes has also been found within many literature pieces. One piece of literature that gender roles and stereotypes can be found in, is in the novel written by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Throughout the novel, leaders presented themselves, a leader is one “who leads or commands a group, organization, or country (Oxford)”, a leadership role can be taken on by any gender and this idea is portrayed in the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey through the characters of Nurse Ratched and McMurphy.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest published in 1962 is set in the Oregon psychiatric hospital ward. Written by Ken Kesey a well known novelist who spent most of his lifetime in Oregon, completing high school, continuing on to college, and exploring his passion for a reading, writing, and film career. (Further Down The Road) Throughout one of Kesey’s best selling novels One …show more content…
Being innovative is one common leadership styles talked about in Rhea Blankens article “8 Leadership styles”. When a leader is innovative they “Grasp the entire situation and goes beyond the usual course of action (Blanken)” also one “Can see what is not working and brings new thinking and action into play (Blanken).” These leadership styles are found in the ways that Mcmurphy leads. For example, in the book McMurphy knew what his goals were and he was willing to endure many different routes and multiple attempts to succeed. No matter what problems he ran into he figured out what was the next best step to continuing on to reach his goals. McMurphy also shows sense of manipulation towards the patients he is around in the