The levels of meaning in Cool Hand Luke and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a story of a mental hospital, the patients within it and the changes both undergo. The film Cool Hand Luke is a story that is somewhat similar to Cuckoo’s Nest about a man that enters a prison camp and his struggle to break away from that authority. The question at hand is whether these two stories hold deeper levels of meaning. Specifically, there are three levels of meaning that are being looked for other than the normal plot level, or the first level of meaning. The second level of meaning that is being looked for is the psychological/social/moral level. On this level, one finds underlying messages dealing with a person’s “inner-light,” society or battles within oneself. The third level of meaning is called the allegorical level. An allegory is a story that closely parallels another story. Specifically, we are looking at the allegory of Christ. The fourth level of meaning is the anagogical level. This level deals wi!th the underlying myths of a story. According to Joseph Campbell, every story follows a certain myth because our entire society is made up of myths. The
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