One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Literary Analysis
Amanda Lynch
Professor McGarvey
Modern American Literature
December 4, 2014
Picture having a clean, smooth routine 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No problems, no fussing, everything always going as planned and always at the scheduled time. Then one person comes between that schedule to turn everything into chaos and madness. A man, who thinks is taking the easy way out, is put in the middle of the routine, arguing, screaming, changing rules, basically causing a small rebellion. He curses, gambles, fights, argues, is destructive and tries to talk his way through and out of everything. That man is named McMurphy, Randall Patrick McMurphy. Sent to an Oregon State mental ward to avoid 30 days of imprisonment on a work farm. Imagine a man like McMurphy and ask yourself how he would ever be considered a Christ-like character. Throughout the book there are many events, symbols, and dialogue foreshadowing the relation of McMurphy to Christ. Many occurences symbolize the beginning life and death by crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Different events are reenactments of stories in the bible with Jesus Christ and his disiciples. Some of the characters in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest represent different people that Jesus had contact with. Occurences involving creating …show more content…
From appearance, personality, and mind state Randal McMurphy would be a complete last choice as a religious figure, but through his actions, he became a miracle that no one was expecting. He gave men unknow knowledge; he opened their eyes to see more then what was expected from them. He gave the patients the gift of laughter, the world 's best medicine. He gave them hope, strength, and self esteem. Above everything, he gave complete strangers freedom and a chance at a new, societal normal life. McMurphy, in his own sense, and the sense of the other guys was a regular guy who became their
Professor McGarvey
Modern American Literature
December 4, 2014
Picture having a clean, smooth routine 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No problems, no fussing, everything always going as planned and always at the scheduled time. Then one person comes between that schedule to turn everything into chaos and madness. A man, who thinks is taking the easy way out, is put in the middle of the routine, arguing, screaming, changing rules, basically causing a small rebellion. He curses, gambles, fights, argues, is destructive and tries to talk his way through and out of everything. That man is named McMurphy, Randall Patrick McMurphy. Sent to an Oregon State mental ward to avoid 30 days of imprisonment on a work farm. Imagine a man like McMurphy and ask yourself how he would ever be considered a Christ-like character. Throughout the book there are many events, symbols, and dialogue foreshadowing the relation of McMurphy to Christ. Many occurences symbolize the beginning life and death by crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Different events are reenactments of stories in the bible with Jesus Christ and his disiciples. Some of the characters in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest represent different people that Jesus had contact with. Occurences involving creating …show more content…
From appearance, personality, and mind state Randal McMurphy would be a complete last choice as a religious figure, but through his actions, he became a miracle that no one was expecting. He gave men unknow knowledge; he opened their eyes to see more then what was expected from them. He gave the patients the gift of laughter, the world 's best medicine. He gave them hope, strength, and self esteem. Above everything, he gave complete strangers freedom and a chance at a new, societal normal life. McMurphy, in his own sense, and the sense of the other guys was a regular guy who became their