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    Alex Fleming P.5 The Hero They Needed “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey‚ Kesey develops several characters to convey themes of power‚ heroism‚ and freedom. Kesey exposes the ins and outs of a place that is mostly hidden from the public‚ a mental hospital. Nurse Ratched‚ the head nurse in the asylum‚ is abusive with power and shows no mercy to the patients. The majority of her power comes from her ability to make the patients feel as if they are a lesser than she is. McMurphy who was

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    The Use of Manipulation: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Throughout Ken Kesey’s novel‚ “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚” the use of manipulation is a re-occurring motif. Manipulation is defined as ’shrewd of devious management. Manipulation is put into context by how the character’s use it. The first character to master it is the antagonist Nurse Ratchet. She uses it to manipulate patients to manage her mechanically structured ward. The other character is the (antagonist‚ protagonist?) patient

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    Sacrifices for Independence In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey‚ Randall Patrick McMurphy is a free spirited man who enters a mental ward in southern Oregon during the 1960’s. He changes the life of everyone there and rebels against the authority of the Big Nurse. As McMurphy meets new patients‚ he tries to have a bigger influence on their lives. McMurphy arrives on the ward thinking he is independent and he wants to bring that independence to the other patients. For McMurphy

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    Chief Bromden is one of the most unique aspects of Ken Kesey’s novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ in that he is a six foot seven inch mentally-insane indian who pretends to be deaf and dumb‚ and is also the story’s narrator. Chief Bromden is a severely interesting character in that he has an inferiority complex in regards to his‚ he is absolutely terrified of the big nurse and “the Combine”‚ and he has several hallucinations that seem to either contradict or enhance the story. One such hallucination

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    Mother Knows Best: Examining Control‚ Oppression and Matriarchy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey published One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1962‚ during an era of change and certain disillusionment in the United States. It is a classic work of the countercultural movement and was inspired and influenced by some of Kesey’s own experiences. Kesey studied at Stanford University on a scholarship for creative writing. While in school‚ he volunteered for a government research program

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    (Teglen 226). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel about the corruption of society‚ and the importance of individualism. It is told from the perspective of a patient‚ Chief Bromden‚ who is ridiculed for being deaf and dumb‚ even though he fakes these two qualities. He is among other “mentally unstable” patients‚ who are all controlled by Nurse Ratched. To her dismay‚ a man named Randall McMurphy enters the hospital and disrupts her control over the other patients. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

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    expected to exercise authority and power and women‚ on the other hand‚ were to be subservient and docile. These stereotypes extended beyond the family into public life and manifested in areas such as politics‚ education and occupations. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Ken Kesey reverses these archetypal gender roles to demonstrate the disorganized and sometimes tragically comic world of a mental hospital. In the novel‚ Kesey portrays women as powerful oppressors who manipulate the patients on the ward

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    Rebellion in Fight Club and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest All societies have a basic structure‚ and in order to function well with others‚ a person must conform to the laws and regulations of said society. In the novels Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey‚ a variety of themes are discussed‚ with the major theme being rebellion. The main characters of both these novels struggle with the established structure they are living in and are unwilling to conform

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    hatching and his time spent in the nest with his family as he fell from his fir tree home. Soren was then picked up by an owl patrol from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls (St. Aggie’s for short). During the flight to the "academy‚" Soren met another stolen owlet: a young Elf Owl named

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    In the Novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ the two power hierarchies that exist in the book are Nurse Ratched and McMurphy. As of now‚ the main power is in the hands of the Big Nurse and she is in control of the ward. McMurphy sat down and got ready to watch the game. He got all comfortable and turned it on and the Nurse got angry and turned off the screen and proceeded to say “You are...under the jurisdiction of me...the staff”(144) as soon as he completely ignored the nurse. The nurse has this

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