The Only Ones

reassemble desks and reattach the tires onto their cars. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, people do in fact “go nuts,” and wrenches are indeed used, but not in the exact same ways. Randle McMurphy, the main character of this novel, frequently causes mishap in the insane asylum he lives in, causing him to go “nuts”; he constantly messes with its orderly and mechanical schedule. In other words, in Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Mr. McMurphy is the wrench in the machine…

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…

How the Ward is run is a clear clue to Kesey's questions of sanity, one reason is the Big Nurse Ratched who is the unofficial controller of the ward. Over the years, she manipulates and twists the patients against one another in group meetings that give little to no help to improve any mental illnesses they have. Her own abuse to her prowess shines throughout the novel such as, by the denial of fun activities that can improve the patients. Kesey shows a large symbol of irony as well with Nurse…

The World Sucks Okay?! Karl Marx introduced the theory of Marxism in the late 19th century and his ideas are still discussed in contemporary society. Ken Kesey created the world within the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in the 1960s. The psychiatric ward that Kesey’s characters reside in are a metaphor for class structure and society that existed in the 19th, 20th, and even the 20th century. He shows the negative effects of class structure in the world through his characters. The…

various issues. Some of which include power and status. Whether it be people abusing, manipulating, or gaining power there are always darker alternative motives. In this case, a prime example of power being used unjustly can be found in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Where society is based on the oppressor, the Combine consistently keeps the people restrained, resulting in conflict among the two. Chief Bromden’s schizophrenic episodes involve the Combine, which symbolizes the…

In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, protagonist Chief Bromden narrates his experience as a patient in a mental ward in which the patients are oppressed and mistreated by the attending staff. Bromden recounts his past that has traumatized him to his current state of being. To remain aloof from the punishments that the staff inflicts on the other patients, Bromden acts innocuous and deaf. The ward remains under the iron fist of the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, until a new,…

the idea of authoritarianism has consumed many political leaders’ agendas. The premise behind the idea of conformity is the betterment of society; however, it has been proven to create a hostile atmosphere as showcased in Ken Kesey’s fiction novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Prevalent during the decade of the 60s, authoritarianism commanded society. Because the United States was dominated by white superiority, citizens feared those who looked and acted differently than the norm. This…

If one said that harvest requires the same amount of sacrifice, then is it worth to sacrifice everything one has to perfect masses’ beneficial? In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, from a patient in a mental institute Bromden’s point of view, describes the main character Randle McMurphy comes to the ward and protests the lead nurse Miss Ratched. As Nurse Ratched is a cruel manipulator that gradually destroy patients’ masculinity, McMurphy sacrifices all he has to help other…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Literary Analysis In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, readers are thrust into the unknown and sometimes terrifying world of mental patients at a psych ward. In the novel, narrator Chief Bromden describes the events that happen in his day to day life after a new ward patient, Randle McMurphy, is admitted. Throughout most of the story, McMurphy constantly challenges the Big Nurse in charge of the ward, Nurse Ratched, and ridicules her futile…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey was written in 1959. The novel focuses on a male psychiatric ward which is ruled by a nurse. The piece supplies the reader with plot development, thick characterization, and various themes. All of these elements add to Kesey’s overall commentary of society’s control. Chief Bromden is the narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Bromden is half- Indian. He has been a patient at a male psychiatric hospital for over ten years and pretends to be…