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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Psychosurgery and Institutionalisation The film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was made in 1975‚ over 10 years after the book was first sent for review. It won 5 Oscars and another 28 awards‚ as well as having 11 other nominations. At the end of the film‚ we see the main character‚ the rebellious Randal McMurphy‚ after he was forced to have a frontal lobotomy. He is in a vegetative state and there is no trace of the once fun-loving and adventurous man. This

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    One of the most important things to a man is feeling that he has a sense of power‚ especially in any relationship with a woman. Without this feeling of masculinity a man may feel weak and powerless. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the author Ken Kesey expresses this in the relationships between Billy Bibbit and his mother‚ Dale Harding and his wife Vera Harding‚ and Chief Bromden’s father and mother. Kesey also proves this through the characterNurse Ratched. The sense of being a true

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    Society is an incredibly powerful social phenomenon that is influential from the moment of birth. Taking on the challenge of changing even a small microcosm of society such as the ward in Ken Keseys “One Flew Over the CuckoosNest” is a futile task for a single person. Society is structured as such that those who inhibit it are nurtured to be perfect individuals‚ complicit and expected to conform to the rules. Breaking the pattern‚ as seen with the struggles of characters such as Billy Bibbit‚ Dale

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    stay in " The Cuckoos Nest" for the rest of the time. He was wrong though. He was actually admitted which means that he could only leave when the doctors thought he was better. He was only 1 of 3 that was actually admitted. He thought he was smart but in the end he dies for being lazy. He gets into a fight with one of the guards and he is given electric shock of 10‚000 volts every day for 2 weeks. Then he came back and he was just like he was before. Then he invited these 2 girls over to have a party

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A Picaresque Novel Dating back to the sixteenth century and preceding through out modern literature. Picaresque is a genre of novel still used today. It consists of a “picaro” Spanish for roguish hero or an adventurer. The picaro is the main character. It also consists of a corrupt society. It’s often satirical and humorous. One Flew over The Cuckoo’s nest has elements of a picaresque novel‚ but it has some contradicting elements as well. Randle McMurphy is

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    of himself. This happens when a greater authority has the power to deny a person of their laughter; which‚ inevitably‚ denies him of his freedom. Ken Kesey conveys the idea that laughter and freedom go hand in hand throughout his novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey portrays laughter as a parallel to freedom through various literary symbols and imagery in order to illustrate how the power of laughter can free a man who is under the control of an unjust authority. Through the characterization

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    Characters in the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey have their own way of controlling the ward. Each person tries to have a say in what goes on in the ward and the process of things to benefit themselves. Nurse Ratched controls the ward through fear‚ Mc Murphy controls the ward through rebellion‚ and the Orderlies control the ward through terror. They either worked together to do this‚ like the Orderlies and Nurse Ratchet‚ or they were completely against each other‚ like McMurphy

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    Veterans’ Administration Hospital. This job convinced Kesey to start working in a mental hospital which is where he was inspired to write ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ which was finished in 1962. While working with his brother back in Eugene for the creamery business‚ Kesey started his next book ‘Sometimes a Great Nation’. While ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ was gaining more popularity‚ a Broadway version of it was made in 1963. ‘Sometimes a Great Nation’ was then finished in 1964 but‚ never

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    One flew over the cuckoos nest” Is based on conformity. Is this more dangerous than not? What can the characters loose if they choose to do so? If they then choose‚ what is at stake for they’re lives and future? Even if they where to choose from the above‚ would that still help them in the long run while occupying the asylum? There are many different ways to go about this‚ I’ve given you a few examples. Members of society amongst the ward are faced with blending in‚ conforming. But what is the

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    Kunnath English 11 Period 7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Literary Analysis Speech Intro: When righting a story an author must consider many things. For a piece of literature to be considered good it needs to have depth and for depth to occur it needs to use literary devices. A good literary device to use would be a symbol. Now a symbol is an object or person which represents something abstract that can be an ideal or a concept. A few symbols in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are: the fog‚ the control

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