One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Cross Kesey’s usage of the cross in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest resembles the classical Roman definition of the cross as a symbol of humiliating execution, not in the literal sense of killing, but in that both the Romans and Kesey recognize the cross as a tool for establishing orthodoxy and achieving conformity. Kesey’s comparison of the electroshock table to the cross demonstrates the cross as not a form of redemption, but of annihilating dissents to achieve total control.…

“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” it's a movie that is primarily carried out of life inside a mental hospital, where are used corporal punishment to appease the violent behaviour of patients. In the film, the main purpose is to entertain an audience, preferably an adult watchers, and show the effects and causes of mental illnesses to which people are affected. The maker of the film tries to make it clear to viewers how people were treated and how they tried to cure or compensate for their…

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” is a great showcase of how time changes everything when it…

Northwest Review, vol. 45, Literary Resource Center, Accessed 4 Dec. 2017. Stephen Potts shows the comparison of Randle McMurphy and Superman and explains how McMurphy's characteristics portray him as a hero. Potts begins by comparing One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to other novels like Huckleberry Finn, The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, etc. Stephen says the novels above have much in common due to the fact that all of the protagonists challenge social norms in society. Potts later compares…

issues, the patients were controlled and silenced. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest did an amazing job of displaying that and getting the conversation started for ordinary people. I also believe that they actors did an incredible job in each of their roles. Each actor knew how to balance playing a part but being realistic beautifully. Charlie Cheswick, for example, was played with such conviction that I truly believed the actor was the character. In one scene in particular, Cheswick has an…

Section 1 Page Range: 1-58 Dates Read: 9/12-9/20 Original Summary: Chief Bromden, a half Native American and Caucasian, is a patient in a psychiatric ward who pretends to be deaf & mute and is the narrator of the story. The psychiatric ward is overseen by Nurse Ratched, who abuses her authority, controls the ward with cruelty and perfection, and has little medical understanding. Chief recalls of Nurse Ratched’s abuse when she sent a patient to receive multiple electroshock treatments for…

McMurphy arrives on the extremely orderly and controlled ward, he makes a mockery of the system itself, claiming that he is “accustomed to being top man,” and he figures that “If [he’s] bound to be a loony” then he is “bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.” This shows that he is ignoring the clear order of the ward, and instead of being ashamed of being a “loony” as the other patients are, he is embracing it in order to mock the societal associations of it (Kesey 21). He is, in effect,…

An important aspect of communicating the truth is through an author’s use of literary elements such as humor and laughter. Diction and phrases such as “literary elements” and “humor” indicate the tone set for the book. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken, Kesey humor is used to define characters and the society they live in. For example, the Chief says, “They don't bother not talking out loud about their hate secrets when I'm nearby because they think I'm deaf and dumb. I'm cagey enough…

difference was they removed Aunt Alexandra from the movie. She was a huge part of scouts life, always helping her act more like a lady and stay classy. It is little differences like this that can change a movies perception. Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…

McMurphy’s apparent madness or irrational behavior in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest plays the important role in the novel of being the devil’s advocate highlighting the ills of the mental institutions of the 1960s. His eccentric behavior was despised by the Big Nurse and other authority figures at the mental institution, but McMurphy’s behavior might be judged reasonable if one considers the dehumanizing, sterile, hostage-like situation that the institute’s patients were subjected…