The Crucible/Cuckoo's nest com
Texts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; The Crucible, Nicholas Hytner production of Arthur Miller's screenplay Question: Explain how the authors of the two texts present similar ideas, although they tell different stories. When ideas surpass both time and place, it is only logical that different authors presenting the theories in separate texts can maintain synonymous perceptions whilst creating superficially unrelated stories. A most clear example of this fact is witnessed in the comparison of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation of Arthur Miller's screenplay, The Crucible. Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest centres around a battle for the minds and souls of a group of mental patients between a dehumanising, conformist bureaucracy known as the "Combine", and naturalist, patriarchal individualism, which are represented by Kesey's characters "the Big Nurse" and "R.P. McMurphy" respectively. Apparently quite separately, The Crucible is based on the tragedy of the Salem witch trials of the nineteenth century, where mass hysteria goes hand in hand with sinister manipulation to take hundreds of innocent lives, revealing with the aid of a number of subplots
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Approximate Word count = 1544
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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