Violence In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Violence is prevalent in many literary works. As Ken Kesey delves into his piece, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, he develops his own iteration of this issue. Chiefly, he focuses on electroshock treatments and castrations. Thomas C. Foster’s gives a broad definition of violence in chapter 11 of his piece. Specifically, he says that violence is a personal and intimate act between humans, yet it can “be cultural and societal in its implications” (Foster 95). In Ken Kesey’s piece, Maxwell Taber, a once rebellious patient, is a “new man” after being released from the hospital (Kesey 40). He is only like this due to the fact that he unwillingly received electroshock therapy, which can be seen as a personal, secluded act. This violence rendered