One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Theme

Ken Kesey is a novelist that was born in La Junta, Colorado and graduated from the University of Oregon. In 1959 he was writing a book but needed money so he participated in an experimental group that paid its participants. These participants were given drugs, such as LSD and Mescaline, and this was held at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo park, New Jersey. Over a period of time, he became an attendant in a psychiatric ward and this is what led him to write One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.The book is based off of experiences with some of the patients in the ward that he had to work with. His main themes in the book include madness, manipulation, power, law and order, rebellion, and freedom and confinement. Kesey used one main
They used this manipulation for power and used it against the patient's. Some examples that he uses in the book include forcing that patients to take pills, being aggressive when they do not listen to orders, and having very harsh punishments such as “shock therapy” and other types of “treatment”. His main themes are power, manipulation, rebellion, madness, law and order, and freedom and confinement. A character for manipulation, power, and law and order would be Nurse Ratched and the way she runs the ward. Reillion, maddness, and freedom and confinement would be all the patients in the
The book was based off of how the system has been manipulated so that one individual has more power over another and the novel had many examples to show this. Ken Kesey used many examples including feelings, body language, and the way the character reacted during the novel to show this manipulation and conveyed this message very clearly. The system has been manipulated and is being used for someone's advantage. We need to fix it and make our institutions a safer and better place for those who are in need of the assistance. They should not be bullied for frightened for getting the help they deserves so we need so correct this system and fix it right