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Notes on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

            Title of Work: One Flew Over the Cuckoo' Nest.
            
            
             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


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1. Imagery in One Flew Over the Cuckoo

In One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest Kesey uses three different kinds of imagery to develop the story and creates vivid Pictures in the mind of the reader. In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chief Bromden's fantasies are dominated by images of machines, and these images occur throughout the novel. ... In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, there are numerous examples of animal imagery. ... In another part of the poem it says, "One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest". ... There are also numerous examples of cartoon imagery In Ken Kesey's One F...

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  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Hamlet and One Flew

A Comparison of Hamlet and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest It is suggested that in modern literature, the true element of tragedy is not captured because the protagonist is often of the same social status as the audience, and therefore, his downfall is not tragic. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a first novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962, is a contemporary tragedy describing the downfall of a rigidly administered ward in a mental institution led by the rebellion of a new admission. ... McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, can be defined as anti-heroes makin...

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3. Emasculation in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

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. ... Its important to note that McMurphy is referencing the men's vitals as the male reproductive organ. ... 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...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. Where is the Love

'Girl, Interrupted' asks us to recall the feelings we have for another film about mental illness and the institutions that thrive on it and that film is, of course, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. ... So did 'Cuckoo's Nest'. ... So did 'Cuckoo's Nest'. ... It is by no stretch of the imagination complete enough to be called a review of either GIRL, INTERRUPTED or ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO"S NEST. ... GIRL, INTERRUPTED and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO"S NEST are films set in mental institutions during the 1960's. ...

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5. One flew over the cockoos nest

In Ken Kesey's, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the reversal of those traditional roles such as, men vs. women and black vs. white, are incorporated into his novel to elicit his views of the asylum and its inhabitants as a microcosm of American society during the post-war era. ... Billy Babbit, thirty-one-years-old, still remains his mothers weak, incompetent son, he is fated to stay an innocent child by his mother's hand. ... This reference makes note that women in the past have typically been acknowledged as fragile characters. ... After analyzing Moynahan's ideas, one can ...

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6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vs. One Flew Over the Cuc

In two of early America's greatest works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, readers are exposed to the vision of two great authors of the 18th and 19th centuries and while it is possible for one to simply read and enjoy the plot of these stories, it is impossible to overlook the similarities in their greater thematic issues. Before actually plunging into the concepts presented in the two stories mentioned above, one must have a brief understanding of the historical setting. ... One doe not have to worry about frivo...

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  • Grade Level: High School

7. Nurse Ratched - Literary Villain

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," by Ken Kesey, is centered around a half Indian man named Chief Bromden. ... Nurse Ratched is the primary woman in the story and the first one to be introduced. ... When I open my eyes she's down the hall about to turn into the glass Nurse's Station where she'll spend the day sitting at her desk and looking out of her window and making notes on what goes on in front of her in the day room during the next eight hours. ... From here it is plain to see that Nurse Ratched has a mental grasp over Bromden and constantly keeps him scared and at ...

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8. Big Nurse

In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey, the patients in a mental institution were firmly controlled by Nurse Ratched, the head of the ward. ... The nurse lost the power she has over the patients, whom she had taken pleasure in controlling. Although the Big Nurse accused McMurphy of playing with human lives as though he was God, she was actually the one impersonating God. ... She took notes on the happenings of the room, and she always seemed to know everything about the patients. ... She also acted very sympathetic when one of the patients had a problem, ...

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