Conformity In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Humans suck, but at least we have gotten better. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest was written in a time when there was a specific idea of what it was to be normal. Anybody who did not fit this idea was considered an outcast and pushed to conform to it. This is the case of many of the characters within this book, they do not fit what it is to be American and they try to hide from it. Today this idea of a normal person is not as important as it was in the past which would change the story completely. If One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest were written about today it would lose its major theme of conformity. The 1950’s was a time of the ‘American ideal,’ or the idea that everyone should be the same. The mental ward was filled with the people who
Another aspect that would change this book is the acceptance in our society. We have come to accept that we are all human beings and we try to stand together, not separately. Most of the patients admitted themselves to the ward in order to hide from society. They were told they did not fit in and they believed it. They were the outcasts and they stood alone, but today, we stand for them. We not only care for ourselves, we care for others in society as well. For example, we have people who participate in movements for gay marriage or Black Lives Matter. Not every supporter is gay or black, but they still support those who are. This just shows how far we have come as people.. Conformity has always been a problem in American society. There have always been people who believe they are better than others and this still holds today. This type of thinking has been detrimental to our society, but there is improvement as the years go by. We continue to grow as a species and we will find peace and acceptance someday. It has been a long road to get here and it has not stopped