Masculinity In Mcmurphy's

Moreover, Kesey uses the character Dale Harding to show the dominance of masculinity between men. Dale Harding, the scholar with a vixen wife, is described to be a fragile-like male, with beautiful features, dainty hands, nice hair and a slim body, and educated suggest attributes fitting for a leader. Despite his beauty, his good looking wife, and his degree, Harding’s biggest trouble was his passiveness and lack of masculinity. When McMurphy is first introduced in the book, he asks to meet with the “top-man” the boss of the ward, Billy Bibbit points to Harding, the president of the Patients Council. Although, Harding had the power to make Mcmurphy live under his lead, he is rather dethroned of his role, by a character whose features represent obvious masculinity traits. Since he lacks those typical masculinity traits, he cannot be the alpha male in the ward.
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One can argue any point as long as it can be proven through the author’s text. This novel is rich with theories and philosophy; however, thorough my eyes I can see that Kesey used the theme of social construction, characterization to demonstrate gender roles and symbols to create awareness of social issues that were relevant at his time, yet prevalent several decades after. I agree that society as a whole have denied themselves the true meaning of what freedom is, most people spent their lives trying to fit in or agreeing to everything; however, just like in the novel, we are all crazy in our natural ways, but we suppressed it because we do not want to be outcasted by the rest of society, even as I write this, I do not think I know what the true face of freedom looks like and I truly believe the entire world doesn’t know either, but I definitely can tell you the construction of colors that make this nation a nation of