Many novels have been written on the subject of power and its attainment. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is the story of a man driven to insanity and unspeakable violence in his quest for it. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, concerns a young man trying to find himself and obtain some c...

Many novels have been written on the subject of power and its attainment. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is the story of a man driven to insanity and unspeakable violence in his quest for it. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, concerns a young man trying to find himself and obtain som...

The main focus of this novel is the total dominance of one mental institute by one woman, the Big Nurse, an ex-army nurse who is controlling and likes to run things according to her ways. As the novel move on, the turning point for all the patients in the ward appear, R.P McMurphy, a redheade...