Reflection On One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Critical Theories Reflection

Part A: Learning the different literary lenses will help further my ability to thoroughly analyze the literature I read. As seen with the examples used throughout the seminar presentations sometimes a certain critical theory can be used more successful for certain pieces of text. Having the knowledge of the many different ways there is to analyze a text I can choose one that will be more accurate. Also, in many cases you can use a bunch of different lenses to analyze one text, but being able to see the different views can help build a more detailed understanding. Although I was somewhat aware of certain lenses such as marxist or feminist theory a lot of the theories were completely new to me and something I hadn’t even considered. Now knowing how much the biography of the author or even the way the way the environment
As described on the very first page of the book Ken Kesey studied at the University or Oregano and later Stanford. Knowing his educational background can help make sense of how the book was written; clearly he was an intelligent guy. A very important part of his biography is the fact that he was part of a government study which tested LSD, mescaline, and other drugs. Throughout the book the main character almost seems to me hallucination these visions of artificial intelligence and machinery in the walls which may have stemmed from the author’s knowledge of drug use himself. Another important part of his history is that he worked as a night attendant in a psychiatric ward which clearly influenced his view on psych wards and his knowledge of how work they work on the inside. You can also take into consideration that as the point of view Chief he is seeming to be sitting on the sidelines watching that maybe that was how Ken had felt while he was working