One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey, United States Randall Patrick McMurphy: A manual laborer, gambler and a con man, who is admitted to the ward from Pendelton Prison Farm, diagnosed as a psychotic. Really not insane, he transforms the ward by teaching the other inmates how to be free. Finally lobotomized after attacking Nurse Ratched, he is killed in his sleep by Chief Bromden. Nurse Ratched: The "Big Nurse," a representative of the "Combine," the Chief's name for the forces of repressive organization in society. She is a former army nurse, in her fifties - an absolute tyrant. She maintains order by pitting the inmates against one another; McMurphy compares her techniques with the "brain-washing" used by the Communists Chief Bromden: A huge paranoid-schizophrenic Indian, the narrator of the novel. He is a Chronic, diagnosed as incurable, and had been on the ward since the end of World War II. He imagines himself to be small and weak and pretends to be a deaf-mute in order to protect himself. The Chief is gradually rehabilitated by McMurph
struggle against the Big Nurse, rapidly takes on overtones of a symbolic battle between the concerning my concepts about certain things. dichotomy is not to denigrate women; it is simply a part of the mythic system Kesey develops wear down his strength and his sanity. Nevertheless, McMurphy arranges a fishing trip Bromden senses that something is different about him. McMurphy swaggers into the ward forces of Good and Evil - freedom an individualism, represented by McMurphy, against
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Approximate Word count = 1832
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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