In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the author, Ken Kesey has put women into two opposite categories. ... The Nurse is a large, cold, unemotional woman whose "face is smooth, calculated, and refined," (Kesey, 11). ... More explicit images and references to castration appear later in the novel, cementing Kesey's idea of emasculation by the frigid nurse. ... Kesey portrays the two operations as symbolically the same. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," two characters seem to keep a sane relationship in a mad house. These characters are Randle McMurphy and the narrator Chief Bromden. Throughout the book Chief is an observer. He watches how McMurphy interacts with the men, adjusts to the mad hous...

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Not too many books take you into the world of mental illness. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. It is told through the eyes of a mental patient named Chief Bromden. He is a northwest Indian, who is disturbed with hallucinations about machines taking over the world he knows. The ment...

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• Grade Level: High School

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Not too many books take you into the world of mental illness. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. It is told through the eyes of a mental patient named Chief Bromden. He is a northwest Indian, who is disturbed with hallucinations about ...

• Word Count: 961
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School