One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest Mental Illness Analysis

Mental Disorders Essay Mental illness is apparent in Hamlet and One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest. Although the main characters from each book are prisoners to different disorders, it is very clear that they are not mentally stable. In One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, Chief Bromden (Chief Broom) suffers from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is described to give its prey “paranoid delusions” and “hallucinations.”Throughout the book Bromden, the big Native American, refers to “the fog” in which he and many other mental patients fall victim to. In a way Bromden could see clearly to the truth that everyone was so heavily sedated that they acted differently, but his mind perceived a different way, as “fog”. The Chief is also so paranoid that he pretends