One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest Gender Analysis
Diana Martinez
Mr. Hansen
English 12
January 08, 2017
Gender Roles
In “One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest” written by Ken Kesey’s takes place in a mental ward full of men with mental problems where there is a reversal of sex roles full of stereotypes. Women take control over the men patients seek protection because they have suffered. Receiving hospitality and treatment for their illness example oppression or fear. Theses men become "victims of a matriarchy" (page 61). For example, Chief B. and McMurphy, the main characters of the book, describe the suffering of the mental patients the acutes and chronics in under hands of Nurse Ratched one of the supervisor. She has supase her job role and has power the men doctors. Chief B. acts deaf in the beginning because he fear a women -Nurse Ratched. Such dominating female characters are negatively portrayed as threatening and overpowering figures who make weaker and make men less effective.
Female characters like the nurses who use feminism in their favor in the institution, McMurphy's past young love, Candy & Sandy, Billy mother, Harding's wife- Vera, and Nurse Ratched are feminine which huge parts in the well being of the men. The relationship between a women and men, sexism is apparent in this book; Ken Kesey's seems to favor the qualities of reversal role of masculinity and femininity. McMurphy coming to …show more content…
___ -"Mother , I' th-thirty-one years old!"..."She laughed and twiddled with weed. Sweet-heart, do I look like the mother of a middle-aged man?" (pg 295) Billy's mother those good for being overprotective ,but crosses the line when she is over-protected and patronizing superiority, has left her son powerless ,blocking him from being part of real world experience. She raised Billy in a way where he became in constantly in need of his mother later after he has become an old
Mr. Hansen
English 12
January 08, 2017
Gender Roles
In “One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest” written by Ken Kesey’s takes place in a mental ward full of men with mental problems where there is a reversal of sex roles full of stereotypes. Women take control over the men patients seek protection because they have suffered. Receiving hospitality and treatment for their illness example oppression or fear. Theses men become "victims of a matriarchy" (page 61). For example, Chief B. and McMurphy, the main characters of the book, describe the suffering of the mental patients the acutes and chronics in under hands of Nurse Ratched one of the supervisor. She has supase her job role and has power the men doctors. Chief B. acts deaf in the beginning because he fear a women -Nurse Ratched. Such dominating female characters are negatively portrayed as threatening and overpowering figures who make weaker and make men less effective.
Female characters like the nurses who use feminism in their favor in the institution, McMurphy's past young love, Candy & Sandy, Billy mother, Harding's wife- Vera, and Nurse Ratched are feminine which huge parts in the well being of the men. The relationship between a women and men, sexism is apparent in this book; Ken Kesey's seems to favor the qualities of reversal role of masculinity and femininity. McMurphy coming to …show more content…
___ -"Mother , I' th-thirty-one years old!"..."She laughed and twiddled with weed. Sweet-heart, do I look like the mother of a middle-aged man?" (pg 295) Billy's mother those good for being overprotective ,but crosses the line when she is over-protected and patronizing superiority, has left her son powerless ,blocking him from being part of real world experience. She raised Billy in a way where he became in constantly in need of his mother later after he has become an old