In Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, one of the literary themes is the combine. The combine represents American Society in the novel. The narrator, Chief Bromden, describes the combine through out the book. He uses extended metaphors and symbolism to represent Society in the form of this combine.
The combine represents American society in several ways. Society viewed by Bromden is simply a machine, a combine. This machine makes people or rather destroys people. It takes their most primal emotions, desires, and forces them to disregard them. It takes
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