One Flew Over The Cuckoo's A Clockwork Orange

In “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, Nurse Ratched symbolizes the oppression of society through archetypal emasculation. The male patients at the ward are controlled, alienated and forced into submission by the superior female characters. Throughout the novel, there is a constant fear of female superiority; Randle McMurphy, the sexually empowered male protagonist, states how they are essentially being castrated. Castration, in the novel, symbolizes the removal of freedom, sexual expression and their identity. Furthermore, Nurse Ratched, the mechanical enforcer, represents American society: corruption, surveillance and the deterioration of individuality.

I liked the book because i thought their was a lot of detail added into the story also i think that it was kind of neet that their was good characters

CHIEF BROMDEN: He is the narrator of the novel and has been in the mental hospital longer than anyone else. He feels as though he has lost himself ever since he was placed into the mental hospital for his illusions and his mental instability. He often just quietly observes everyone in the word and pretends as though he can’t hear or speak. He doesn’t get in anyone’s way, but somehow manages to find out a lot about people in the mental hospital. Due to how analytical he is, he quickly notices how different McMurphy is from everyone else.

In Kesey’s 1950s novel ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest’ Nurse Ratched’s relationship with male patients is based upon differences they hold about gender and identity. Nurse Ratched is portrayed as a masculine misandrist figure that gains power from emasculation. She carries “no compact or lipstick or woman stuff, she’s got that bag full of a thousand parts she aims to use in her duties” . This implies nothing womanly about her as she prioritises her “duties”, suggesting that she aims to control her male patients by ridding her feminine qualities. In addition, she is shown in robotic with a chilling aura. This is evident when she slid “through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her” . This indicates that as a power figure her only concern is controlling her male patients, making sure they are obedient and abiding by her rules. “Gust of cold” implies that by doing so she wholly ruins her relationship with the males due to her “cold” and callous methods. Daniel J. Vitkus states she is “the Big Nurse, an evil mother who wishes to keep and control her little boys (the men on the ward) under her system of mechanical surveillance and mind control.” Yet, can be argued that she is fulfilling her role of working as a Nurse within a mental institution. However Vitkus’s critique is similar to when McMurphy says “Mother Ratched, a ball-cutter?” McMurphy is a hyper masculine force against Ratched’s emasculating norms. Their relationship is essentially a power

Chief is the veteran of the ward. He has been there the longest, since the start of World War II, with the exception of Big Nurse. He has the mutual respect of everyone in the ward.

In today’s world with the recent chaos that has erupted many people tend to think that the world has become insane and that they are the last sane individuals alive. However, in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the ones who are seeking treatment for insanity seem more reasonable then the sane ones. This is because in the novel, the person that holds jurisdiction, Nurse Ratched also maintains a fearsome reputation. Many people would agree that the theme that drives the conflict in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a primeval form of masculinity versus asexual women, institutions and society because the author, Ken Kesey uses nonconformity, fear and alpha females as a tactic to keep the patients in the asylum.

Total Institution is a place in society in which a group of people follows all the same guidelines/rules and conform to the way society thinks to be the norm. Amoung total institution many things in the environment are under control like the way one might dress or act. Depending on where a person is, that might affect the way they carry themselves. In the program "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," does a great job by showing the characteristics of a controlled environment such as; hierarchy, adjustment, depersonalization, and institutionalization.

In the novel and the film One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest there are a variety of transformations. In the film the actors are not portrayed, looks wise, as they are in the book. There are many characters whose appearances aren’t how they are described in the book, like Nurse Ratched and Chief Bromden. There are also many events and incidents that happen in the book that do not happen in the movie. The movie includes a character or two that was not mentioned in the book and characters are portrayed differently than how they are in the book.

In the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” the character Randal “Mac” McMurphy decides that spending a 68 day sentence in the psychiatric ward would be an easy task compared to the same amount of time in jail, but quickly finds out that Nurse Mildred Ratched has just as much hidden deviance within her as he is trying to portray outwardly to stay in the ward and not be sent to jail where he truly belongs for raping a 15 year old girl. McMurphy and Nurse Ratcheds battle of power and wills escalates very quickly causing the other patients to notice Nurse Ratcheds humiliating, demoralizing and deviant ways. During a group session McMurphy asks Ratched for a change in the ward policy allowing them to watch the World Series. McMurphy was told they would have to take a vote on it. The first vote due to the other patients fear of Ratcheds wrath caused no one to vote, but during the next session Martini asked for another vote. Nine patients raised their hands for the change in the policy. Ratched still trying control the vote stated they needed the majority vote to change the policy. There are 18 on the ward floor so, McMurphy after trying to get several of the other patients to raise their hands, finally got Chief to raise his hand. McMurphy got a stern response from Ratched, stating the vote was closed already and that Chiefs vote did not count. McMurphy takes things into his own hands and begins faking a baseball commentary to the ward, getting all the patients excited and

The 1960s was a time of great social change where people were challenging the norms great extends. The novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a perfect example of this which represents a great cultural artifacts of the sixties. The 1960s begin the controversial movement toward deinstitutionalization, act that would 've effected the characters in Cuckoo’s nest. In 1962 in the midst of the civil rights movement and deep changes to the way psychology and psychiatry we 're being approached in America. The novel takes place in the hospital where McMurphy fake his insanity to serve his sentence for battery and gambling in the hospital rather than in prison. The hospital symbolizes the microcosm of society because the people of the ward follows and listens to the people in higher position and they are labeled as insane if they show any signs of rebellious behavior. Those who follows the rules I are considered normal and the ones that don 't are considered insane.

A novel based off of a nursery rhyme must be peaceful and cheerful right? Not according to Ken Kesey. In his kaleidoscopic novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey introduces the reader to a plethora of kooky, loony, and downright absurd situations, all the while being set in a mental hospital in the 1960’s. Kesey adventures in experimenting with elements of an entirely new literary time period, Post-Modernism. By using an overabundance of tones that, to the ordinary author, would be insane, Kesey is able to form creative and crazy characters. By using his experience in mental hospitals, Kesey gives immense depth to One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. From the blank screen World Series to the midnight party, and all of the other insanity that ensues, Kesey is able to create an engrossing and fulfilling novel, with a slight flair of the psychedelic.

Directed by visionary Miloš Forman, the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest fully takes advantage of the film medium to convey differing tones. One such example is during the final scene of the film; Chief Bromden, after smothering McMurphy to death, lifts a heavy marble sink, throws it through a window, and escapes. During this scene especially, the use of lighting and sound expresses a sense of freedom and salvation. Forman’s deliberate application of lighting in certain areas and colors add meaning to his final scene. During the scene where Bromden sneaks into the room with the marble sink, all lights in the room are turned off and the room is shrouded in darkness.

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Our perspective of a stranger whom we’ve never met nor seen, but only heard of through the mouth of the enemy’s opinion, will inevitably align with the only version of the story we’ve heard. This sort of bias is found in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, with Nurse Ratched’s depiction through the narration by Chief Bromden. The reliability of Bromden’s perspective is questionable, as it is his interpretation of the world, rather than what it actually is.