Characterization of McMurphy and Nurse Ratched Kesey's characterization of McMurphy and Nurse Ratched is the element that makes the plot come alive. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, the main characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, helped establish and embellish the plot and the other character...
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. ... 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 express their own unique individuality The idea that society's influential pressures co...
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 discrete categories become gradually more and more confused and blurred so that terms such as "sane" and "insane" lose their meaning and it becomes very difficult to determine what importance these terms actually have any more. An example of this is when McMu...
