In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, the underlying theme is how society destroys the individual and natural drives within its followers. ... As a result, Kesey's choice of the mental asylum for the setting clearly underlines the hypocrisies of society. ... Kesey also uses satire to bring relevance and meaning to his setting. ... Kesey mocks society once again as a group of mindless beings who are content on living their lives in a fog of control and indistinguishability. ... One cannot look at society in the same way after having read this story and understanding t...

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Title of Work: One Flew Over the Cuckoo' Nest Author: Ken Kesey Date of Publication: 1962 Genre: Physcological, character, fictional Writing Style: Stream of consciousness, innovative, descriptive Point of View: Chief Bromden, observance is key, combine, foggy Setting/Atmosphere: Oregon, psych hospital, post-war era, 1950's Plot Development: Part 1- Chief Broom, combine, longest residing patient, new admission McMurphy, M brings trouble to ward, fields...

• Word Count: 970
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• Grade Level: High School

Written by Ken Kesey in 1958, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, is a novel set in a psychiatric hospital. ... In addition, the novel serves as a study of critique of behaviorism, as well as celebration of principles of human beings (Wasserman and Kesey 13). ... Because of this, he thinks that he once used to be big, but not anymore at the present (Kesey 18). ... However, he may have had a significant mental breakdown because of witnessing the decline of his own father (Kesey 43). ... This is an indication that Chief is not insane, as other people in the hospital tend to think (Kesey 63). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Such result of the tools is best exemplified in the characters and development in the novel THE CUCKOO"S NEST by Ken Kesey. ... And thus using a universal figure many people can relate to Kesey is able to make the novel more powerful. ...

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Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, portrays the narrator, Chief Bromden, to be a large powerful man. However, he believes he is small and weak. Bromden is fully capable of hearing and comprehending what is going on, and of speaking - yet he poses to be a deaf-mute. Througho...

• Word Count: 691
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• Grade Level: High School