The notion that society's influential pressures compel individuals to conform, forcing them to supress their individuality is explored by Ken Kesey, in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. ... Kesey contrasts the characters of Chief Bromden and Randall McMurphy to achieve this. ... Kesey then contrasts Chief with McMurphy. ... Kesey contrast the hospital with the fishing boat to convey this idea. ... Decisively, Kesey shows that setting can restore an individual's own sense of freedom and safety, and that without the boundaries that society creates an individual is able to...

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Both Shakespeare's comedic play As You Like It and Ken Kesey's post-modernist novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," portrays the transformation of its characters throughout the texts, via a close examination of the gradual evolution of character that occurs within the protagonists of each text. ... Similarly, Kesey's, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," reflects the transformative process of the journey through the experiences of Chief Bromden. ... " With Kesey employing onomatopoeia and contextual zoomorphism so as to highlight the characters progression, as a...

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In Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the motif of castration is used to exemplify the fact that women in a position of power have the capacity to emasculate even the most masculine of men, thus contradicting modern societal issues relating to sexism. Kesey references castration to demonstrate emasculation of the male patients. ... This concretes Kesey's point regarding the emasculating qualities of the act of castration. ... In summary, Kesey uses references of castration to parallel the power certain women in the book hold over masculine men, highlighting societal ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate