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. ... This can be seen in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest through the relationship of the Chief and McMurph...

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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. ... For example, at one point, Chief overhears someone talk about a patient in the Disturbed ward who killed himself by cutting off his testicles, he replies by saying, all the guy had to do was wait (129), referring to the eventual mental castration that would have occurred due to the ward and its conditions. ... In summary, ...

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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. ... McMurphy's appearance is one aspect of his character, he has "red[hair] with long red sideburns". ... 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 exp...

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This novel presents the reader with, at the beginning at least, a clear line that is drawn between those who are "sane" and those who are "insane." However, what happens as the novel begins to progress, especially with the introduction of McMurphy into the asylum, is that these supposedly secure and...

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