Bird nest

Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent an idea. These symbols can be animals, objects, people, or anything. Color is a common symbol throughout all literature. In Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest there are a lot of colors. This essay could go on forever with all of them, so here are four: white, red, green, and purple. White and red represent emotions that the Combine feels towards the men on the ward, and green and purple show the men’s emotions towards the latter. Kesey uses white…

Society demands the conformity of its members, so that no one person is different than any other… at least in the novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey. This novel presents the main antagonist as the Big Nurse, or Nurse Ratched, who runs the mental asylum as tight as she ran her old position in the army. However, one reader questions how much of a villain Nurse Ratched really is by proposing, “Nurse Ratched is not the true villain of the novel. She is instead a symbol of…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A book that contains crude language throughout, paints images of rape and violent adult situations surely deserves to be banned. But One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has a deeper meaning than all the language, rape and drugs to be banned from this school. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is based in a mental hospital in the 1960’s, where things such as homosexuality was illegal and considered a disease back then. It is told from a first person perspective by Chief…

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an entertaining film that depicts the life of criminal nearing the end of his sentence at a labor camp. Randall Patrick McMurphy (Mac), begins acting insane as he thinks that a transfer to a psychiatric institution will be his easy way out of hard work. Little to his surprise, nurse Ratchet is the head nurse who will do anything to breath the life out of the patients in the institution. Soon Mac and Ratchet are at war, and Mac begins to fight for himself and…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a film about a man, Randle McMurphy, who faked being mentally unstable in order to finish his jail term in a mental hospital. The antagonist in this film is the woman who runs the ward, Nurse Ratched. She is portrayed as a calculating woman who has a compulsive need to dominate others, especially the patients. Before McMurphy was admitted to the facility, the other patients meekly complied with what Nurse Ratched told them to do. When McMurphy arrives, however…

Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, conveys different messages. One of the messages conveyed towards the reader is the importance of freedom against oppression. McMurphy is a prime example of how self sacrifice plays a key role in rebellion. This later inspires Bromden to escape the ward and finally gains his freedom to the real world. Although the novel does not have many role models, it does have one important one who is McMurphy. McMurphy is shown as one who takes action for…

Carver can’t believe his luck when he is adopted by Mr. Hawking of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. With Carver under his wing, he quickly starts testing him and his detective abilities. Making him figure out how to reach the agencies secret building, which neither Carver or anybody has ever heard of. Once reaching the Pinkerton Agency he is blown away with the luxurious building filled with retro detective gadgets. Then an agent tells Carver how Mr. Hawking, “lives among the mad.”…

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is what I saw as a commentary about the true nature of people. It allowed us, as the reader, to experience the inside of a mental hospital through the eyes of the oh-so-lovely, “deaf and dumb”, Chief Bromden. Quickly, I just wanted to say, as much as I loved the theme and general story of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, I really wish that it wasn’t narrated the way it was. Using the dialect of Bromden was a huge negative to me and made it difficult for me to…

The 1960’s witnessed a sprawling reformation in American society through its treatment of minorities. In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the author illuminates societies unfair treatment of the mentally ill. Through the perspective of a long time patient, Chief Bromden, the reader becomes a witness to the cruel treatment from the wards controller, Nurse Ratched. Chief Bromden’s meticulous description of each day illustrates the degrading and mechanical power of the ward’s…

Critical Notes PART 1: Introduces chief bromden, he is narrating, sets up the hierarchy, the black asides Nurse Ratched, Sets up the nurse as nice looking but she can be scary the public relations man comes by with grade-school teachers and comments on how cheery the atmosphere is since the insane asylums stopped being so cruel then a new patient arrive one, Randle McMurphy, how is confident and smiles a lot Bromden comments on how the laughs that came from McMurphy that day were the first…