One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey, United StatesRandall Patrick McMurphy: A manual laborer, gambler and a con man, who is admitted to the ward from Pendelton Prison Farm, diagnosed as a psychotic. Really not insane, he transforms the ward by teaching the other inmates how to be free. Finally lobotomized after attacking Nurse Ratched, he is killed in his sleep by Chief Bromden. Nurse Ratched: The "Big Nurse," a representative of the "Combine," the Chief's name for the forces of repressive organization in society. She is a former army nurse, in her fifties - an absolute tyrant. She maintains order by pitting the inmates against one another; McMurphy compares her techniques with the "brain-washing" used by the Communists Chief Bromden: A huge paranoid-schizophrenic Indian, the narrator of the novel. He is a Chronic, diagnosed as incurable, and had been on the ward since the end of World War II. He imagines himself to be small and weak and pretends to be a deaf-mute in order to protect himself. The Chief is gradually rehabilitated by McMurph
I didn't know it existed, but I later found out that it still exists. y and emerges as maybe the real protagonist of the book at the end. Bromden suffocates McMurphy in his bed, enabling him to die with some dignity rather than live as a symbol of Ratched's power. But the flasbacks are rather short, though important like the nursery rhyme. There may be some writing errors in the Book Report, but the spellcheck doesn't work, so sorry for that!) . The Big Nurse tests a needle against her fingertip. Bromden, escapes from the hospital by breaking through a window. SUBJECT/THEME: Society's Destruction of Natural Impulses - Kesey uses mechanical imagery to represent modern society and biological imagery to represent nature. For example a nursery rhyme from which the title is taken is quoted (in Part 4) by the Chief, as he remembers his childhood while awaking from a shock treatment. I saw on discovery channel last week that many people, who are depressed are getting even more depressed with shock therapy. These parts were very boring to read. They are ruled by Nurse Ratched, who runs the ward with harsh, mechanical precision. I didn't really learn anything from the book.
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