Cuckoo's Nest Moral

In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey makes many allusions to McMurphy as a Christ-like figure. As the story progresses the religious references increase and become more evident. Any character can be a Christ figure, “where you find them, and as you find them. If the indicators are there, then there is some basis for drawing the conclusion” (Foster, 2003, p.123). Throughout the novel McMurphy’s actions parallel the actions of Christ. From the beginning it was clear McMurphy was different from the other patients. As his visit prolonged, McMurphy began to care for the patients much like Christ cared for his followers. In order to depict this similarity, Kesey used foreshadowing, events, and feelings.

The significance of the title can be interpreted in this quote. The story is about a struggle in a psychiatric ward, where many “cuckoos'; reside, “Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts ‘em in pens… wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock… one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest… O-U-T spells out… goose swoops down and plucks you out.'; This is where the title comes from, the cuckoo’s nest being the psychiatric ward and McMurphy being the goose who plucks “you'; out.

Motives are the most common source of an outcome, leading individuals to every action that occurs. Every decision made by an individual is influenced by some sort of motive, whether it is physiological, social, or personal. Ken Kesey presents to the reader the inspiration behind the characters course of action in the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, resulting in the change of heart from Dr.Spivey and Randle McMurphy. The impact from other individuals often alters the reasoning for an action. Doctor Spivey originally supported Nurse Ratched’s actions, but Mcmurphy influenced him to make decisions based on the needs and wants of the patients. Mcmurphy inspires the men to voice their opinion and builds their confidence up, so that they can take on the Nurse. Nurse Ratched does not agree with the men, so she does everything in her power to eliminate the men's masculinity in order for her to keep the ward running like she desires.

According to Aristotle, “a perfect tragedy should be […] that of a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or some depravity, but by some error or frailty” (Butcher 45). The novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, follows ‘Chief’ Bromden, the narrator, as he copes with life in a mental asylum in the 1950’s after the arrival of McMurphy, a stubborn and hot-headed new patient. Aristotle first defined the perfect protagonist of a tragedy in his book Poetics, published around 300 BC. His ideas of what characteristics constitute a tragic hero continue to be used to this day in analyzing the role individuals play in literature. Because McMurphy is fundamentally good yet also flawed, and because with his demise comes a significant message, he can be considered a tragic hero.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a famous USA movie at November 19, 1975. This movie talks about when Randle Patrick McMurphy was transferred from prison farm to a mental institution, a group people who were diagnosed with mental illness lived here. McMurphy was dynamic, distinguished himself from other patients in the disregard he displays for all authority, the patients treated him as the leader. The big nurse Ratched wanted to controlling over McMurphy as other patients. However, McMurphy was send for a lobotomy after he attacked Ratched, his friend Chief killed McMurphy and finally, he was freedom (Ken Kesey, 2003). This research paper regards to the symptoms, casual factors of narcissistic personality disorder, the type of treatments received from in this film, the influence on others and my personal feelings to this movie.

Kesey highlights two distinctions between the roles of women in his novel ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. He places women in two categories, the ‘Ballcutters’ and ‘Whores’ . The ‘Ballcutters’ are presented to have a dominant role over the men within the ‘Combine’ and challenges their masculinity, resulting in them being personified as machines. This is demonstrated when Bromden describes the ‘tip of each finger the same colour as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron’ of Nurse Ratched. Bromden compares the complexion of her fingers and lips with a metal iron, suggesting not only is she machine like, but also has the physical appearance of a metal machine. The ‘Whores’ are Candy and Sandy who are submissive and this stems from the introduction of the contraceptive pill, as ‘feminists encouraged sexual exploitation with multiple partners and claimed sexual pleasure as a woman’s right’, Thus, resulting into them being presented as sexual beings fulfilling the sexual appetite of men.

"This world belongs to the strong, my friend...The rabbit accept its role on the Earth and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes frightened and elusive and dig holes and hides when the wolf about. It knows its place. It most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf"(Excerpt from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey). In the book Speak the author uses a bunny rabbit to symbolize how vulnerable Melinda is throughout the book and a wolf to symbolize how Andy is a grim beast in Melinda's eyes. Melinda uses a bunnyrabbit to describe how she feels whenever Andy encounters her. Andy is described like a wolf all throughout the book by

A theme that keeps reoccurring throughout the book is, never backing down or running away from your past. It is correct that at first, Somaly ran away from the brothel with her husband, Pierre, and went to live in France for a while, however they moved back. “Your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it” (page 156), the best motto that fit the story. In the book when Pierre and Somaly moved back to Kratie in Cambodia, where she started volunteering in the mornings with a MSF clinic. During the mornings, some girls would come in seeking help for their sicknesses or AIDS so they could work, however, the nurses who see who they were judge them causing neglect to help them. Although, Somaly knew from experience it was not the girls fault and had to do something to help them, since the workers

“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen” (Kesey 8). No single quote can encapsulate both the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the 1960s as well as this one does. It shows the unreliable narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Due to his schizophrenia, Chief Bromden’s hallucinations make him unreliable, because he himself can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy for most of the novel. This quote, however, also applies to the 1960s. Each and every person in the 1960s were protesting for something, whether it was an unjust war across the ocean, attempting to fight the threat of growing Communism, or even fighting for their basic human rights. Because of this, every person had their own opinion of what the 1960s were. Just because each account is incredibly unique, and the viewpoints are diverse, each person’s story is true, even if it is riddled with biases and opinions.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is defined as a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury, or severe psychological shock. As you read The Things They Carried and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, you become aware of the considerable possibility that the two main characters are suffering from this condition. With the main character, Tim O’Brien, from The Things They Carried being a former military member, and the main character, Chief Bromden, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest being a patient at a mental ward, we are immediately aware of the differences in their experiences. Although Bromden and O’Brien’s traumas are a result of being in different environments, they have similar ways of dealing with it; these include flashbacks of better times, symbols in their life, and close friends they have met.

The first character introduced was Peter Holmes. Holmes is a Lieutenant- Commander of the Royal Australian Navy. Peter married to his wife, Mary, six months before the war. Peter comes across as a family-oriented character. He continues to not only make decision that benefited him, but he always keeps his family in his thought. The impending deployment of Peter shifted the Holmes household. Instead, Mary would retrieve the milk and keep the family running. On one of his last trips, Peter sets up with the farmer the future transaction. Peter set down a plan and told the farmer what to expect. While in his interview, Peter makes sure he pick the job right for his family. He aches for a seagoing job, but also recognizes Mary needs a change as

Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, tells a fictionalized tale regarding a mental asylum in the 1960s. By analyzing the novel, we can see that Kesey argues that games are the ideal and natural manner in which homosocial communities and friendships are created, which ultimately benefit men by allowing them to resolve their issues surrounding masculinity; Kesey argues that games are the antithesis to the authority observed in society and institutions which aim to control men within rules and standards.

Flying Into the Cuckoo’s Nest When a book is written or a movie is made, the end product will reveal more than just the plot. The medium and the time it was made has a significant effect on the themes found throughout. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the original themes of the book are warped by the thirteen years between the novel and the movie. The counter-feminism of the novel becomes less prominent in the movie as feminism gains popularity in the 1970s. The purpose of the movie may also differ from the purpose of the book.

Imagine a world with no sex. Where those who openly embrace their sexualty are diagnosed as “deranged”. It’s an ideology that would produce a bleak world where everyone is repressed in one way shape or form. We witness this oppressive agenda practiced all throughout Ken Kesey's The Bird That Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched strips the wards of their libido in twisted assertion of dominance. This due to the fact that Kesey conveys the idea that sexuality can be used as a weapon of mass destruction through the use of Nurse Ratched’s characterization, the conflict that emerges between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, and using McMurphy to act as Nurse Ratchets foil. All of these elements depicts how important sexaulity is to all the characters.

Written by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was published in 1967 by Penguin Books. This story was written based on the author’s experience while working in a mental institution. He held long conversations with the inmates in order to gain a better understanding of them. It was during this period that he wrote the first draft of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Most of the characters in the novel are based upon actual patients he met while working at the hospital.