One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Literary Analysis
Show how a pairing of two texts this year gave you an understanding of how authors can present similar ideas in different ways.
How do One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dead Poet’s Society show that authors can present similar ideas in different ways?
This essay will discuss how the texts , One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kesey and Dead Poet’s Society by Tom Schulmen, both explore similar ideas in different ways. These are through the use of the different plots, how the setting is shown, the contrasts of antagonists and the similarity and differences of the oppressed characters.
The basic plots of each of these texts are; an outside person enters an institution, promises change and freedom, a disaster occurs and the freedomer leaves. In Cuckoo’s Nest, Randall McMurphy is this person. He tries to help the patients by allowing them to stand up for themselves. This change helps people to either stand up or return living with restrictions. Nurse Ratched, the antagonist of Cuckoo’s Nest sends the patients who rebel to the Electroshock Therapy room. As means of something, this causes McMurphy to be even angrier towards her which sends him to get a lobotomy. This is Cuckoo’s Nest’s disaster. After Chief Bromden kills …show more content…
These antagonists are the authority figures so they control the environment around them. Neil’s father wants him to be like the other boys and grow up to be a successful doctor. He sees acting as not a quality and stable job. In Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched removes the person who is not conforming and sends them to the electroshock room or to get a lobotomy. She controls the environment and manipulates it how she chooses to. “She’s lost a little battle here today, but it’s a minor battle in a big war that she’s been winning and that she’ll go on winning.” This quote shows how she in a direct fight with the patient in a war that has no
How do One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dead Poet’s Society show that authors can present similar ideas in different ways?
This essay will discuss how the texts , One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kesey and Dead Poet’s Society by Tom Schulmen, both explore similar ideas in different ways. These are through the use of the different plots, how the setting is shown, the contrasts of antagonists and the similarity and differences of the oppressed characters.
The basic plots of each of these texts are; an outside person enters an institution, promises change and freedom, a disaster occurs and the freedomer leaves. In Cuckoo’s Nest, Randall McMurphy is this person. He tries to help the patients by allowing them to stand up for themselves. This change helps people to either stand up or return living with restrictions. Nurse Ratched, the antagonist of Cuckoo’s Nest sends the patients who rebel to the Electroshock Therapy room. As means of something, this causes McMurphy to be even angrier towards her which sends him to get a lobotomy. This is Cuckoo’s Nest’s disaster. After Chief Bromden kills …show more content…
These antagonists are the authority figures so they control the environment around them. Neil’s father wants him to be like the other boys and grow up to be a successful doctor. He sees acting as not a quality and stable job. In Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched removes the person who is not conforming and sends them to the electroshock room or to get a lobotomy. She controls the environment and manipulates it how she chooses to. “She’s lost a little battle here today, but it’s a minor battle in a big war that she’s been winning and that she’ll go on winning.” This quote shows how she in a direct fight with the patient in a war that has no