One Thousand and One Nights

McMurphy is the tragic hero portrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. By being fundamentally good and displaying a flaw that leads to his downfall in the book, McMurphy easily fits between Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero and the Modernist definition. McMurphy is a fundamentally good character, even though not noble of birth as stated in Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. McMurphy is full of personality, independent, and life affirming. In the beginning, he seems more…

them. The political prisoners are conniving con artists whose strength is their strong bond and them being kept together. In the story the narrator describes the political prisoners claiming, “Span One was assertive and it was beyond the scope of white warders to handle assertive black men. Thus, Span One had got out of control. They were the best thieves and liars in the camp” (Head 127). Warders are intimidated by them because they are cunning and…

Our society tends to place judgement on a people who are different and reject the norms of society. In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the treatment of the patients to become “normal” in the asylum is voluntarily and involuntarily. Some of the patients are in the asylum due to their sexual orientation, having distorted speech and having physical and mental disabilities. The men that are in the ward are afraid to leave because of the judgment from the public or society.…

Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is a well known piece of literature published in 1962 containing the theme of how society has the power to decide whether a person is really insane or not because of the way an individual exhibits themselves. Power and control are a motif reoccurring in the story which is different than the definition applied in the outside world than on the ward in which power is usually defined as the authority given to someone holding a higher position. Through…

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In One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey, they patients and/or characters are often compared to and made reference to the Bible and to the religion of Christianity. Kesey creates the topic of the enviroment in the ward to be religious and Christian by comparing multiple incidents and situations to the characters and the plot itself. Scenarios where he creates the mood of religion was with the situation with Ellis a biblical reference, the fishing trip that they all went on, and the time…

What role does imagery play in the extract? One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel by esteemed author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that concerns the gruelling conditions which Soviet prisoners in the gulags had to endure. In this extract, Solzhenitsyn employs imagery, themes, and a combination of both to communicate the daily adversities of being a prisoner in the gulags as a means of shocking the audience. Imagery is arguably the most effective tool utilized by Solzhenitsyn to deliver…

The incorporation of religious themes into Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest depicts McMurphy as a Christ figure, serving to protect the patients from Nurse Ratched. Just as Jesus stood up for all people against the devil, McMurphy defends the patients of the ward against Nurse Ratched. As a “martyr or saint” would, McMurphy defends the patients regardless of the consequences (222). McMurphy “risk[s] doubling his stay in the nuthouse” to defend the patients against Nurse Ratched (220).…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is ranked number thirty-three out of one-hundred films on the AFI’s (American Film Institute’s) One Hundred Greatest Films of All Time list, and rightfully so. I first watched this film in my sociology class entitled: Deviant Behavior. My professor emphasized the importance of how the people in the film were treated. This film captures the flaws of the mental health care system and shows that how people are treated effects their perception of themselves, others,…

against them during group therapy sessions and belittling them in front of the other patients. Nurse Ratched is aware of the fact that she controls the power during the group “therapy” sessions, and she uses this time to exercise her dominance. During one of the sessions, she chooses to address Dale Harding and his troubles with his wife. He has been admitted into the hospital due to his feelings of inferiority and she uses this information against him in order to belittle him and make him feel…