Irony In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
If someone else was manipulating and engineering one’s idea of society and normality, what would one expect? This is the case in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, articulates the novel, and is set in an insane asylum with a strict tyrannical administrator, Nurse Ratched. “Big Nurse Ratched” is considerably the representative of society as she tries molding everyone into her picture-perfect vision. Throughout the novel, Kesey used a collection of literary devices such as analogy, symbolism, situational irony, and imagery to imply the central theme of the novel, the allegory to 1960's American Society.
For starters, as Ken Kesey initiates his novel, …show more content…
This supported the audience as they got a better understanding of the theme and moral of the story as Michael M. Boardman agreed that Nurse Ratched was indeed “a ball-cutter” moreover an “old- buzzard,” to define her for the cruel and vicious actions she would take in order to keep all the patients under her control, similar to the way the outside world is ruled by one individual. Furthermore, the use of imagery also increased emotional ties to the story by creating a more detailed vision of the setting as Chief Bromden brought to notice that Nurse Ratched indignantly “hated when the ward [would] not move like a precision-made machine.” (167) By doing as such, the reader felt more in sync with the story, which then created more emotional bonds with the novel.
Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest used numerous literary devices such as analogy, symbolism, situational irony,and imagery, to give the readers a brief overlook on how Nurse Ratchet’s idea of handling the ward was to take full control and shape the patients into society’s idealistic
If someone else was manipulating and engineering one’s idea of society and normality, what would one expect? This is the case in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, articulates the novel, and is set in an insane asylum with a strict tyrannical administrator, Nurse Ratched. “Big Nurse Ratched” is considerably the representative of society as she tries molding everyone into her picture-perfect vision. Throughout the novel, Kesey used a collection of literary devices such as analogy, symbolism, situational irony, and imagery to imply the central theme of the novel, the allegory to 1960's American Society.
For starters, as Ken Kesey initiates his novel, …show more content…
This supported the audience as they got a better understanding of the theme and moral of the story as Michael M. Boardman agreed that Nurse Ratched was indeed “a ball-cutter” moreover an “old- buzzard,” to define her for the cruel and vicious actions she would take in order to keep all the patients under her control, similar to the way the outside world is ruled by one individual. Furthermore, the use of imagery also increased emotional ties to the story by creating a more detailed vision of the setting as Chief Bromden brought to notice that Nurse Ratched indignantly “hated when the ward [would] not move like a precision-made machine.” (167) By doing as such, the reader felt more in sync with the story, which then created more emotional bonds with the novel.
Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest used numerous literary devices such as analogy, symbolism, situational irony,and imagery, to give the readers a brief overlook on how Nurse Ratchet’s idea of handling the ward was to take full control and shape the patients into society’s idealistic