Which are Kesey's views on the feminist movement, civil rights, and the underlying idea of conformity. All of these issues are exposed in the "pool scene" in which the author, and director are constrained to different parameters, and must use different devices to convey the same message. The dominant theme in this novel is that of conformity. In the novel conformity is

represented as a machine, or in Chi

ef Bromden's mind a "combine" . To the Chief, the "combine' depicts the conformist society of America The Chief views the mental hospital as a big machine , which is run by " The Big Nurse" who controls everyone except McMurphy with "wires", and a "control panel"( which the Chief see quite clearly in his psychosis). In the Chief's eyes McMurphy was missed by the "combine", and the Chief and the acutes were lured into it. Therefore McMurphy is an nonconformist and is free from the "wires" of "The Big Nurse" and so he is a threat to the "combine". This is very clear in the "pool scene". This excerpt from the book demonstrate's R.P's influence on the acutes to rebel, "Now that McMurphy was around to back them up, the guys started letting fly at everything that had ever happened on the ward they didn't like."(158) In the film you can actually see the acutes l

Some common words found in the essay are:
America Chief, Nurse Ratched, Narrator Kesey, Cuckoo's Nest, Chief Bromden's, Billy Bibbit, nurse ratched, psychological castration, Flew Cuckoo's, flew cuckoo's nest, novel conformity, flew cuckoo's, pool scene, combine chief, cuckoo's nest,
Approximate Word count = 578
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)