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Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is set in an institution for the mentally unstable, and explores issues of the individual in a dictatorship and what it means to be insane. Kesey focuses on one particular ward within the institution, and throughout the book the reader is constantly getting a feel for the patients’ character, and attitude towards the Big Nurse, Mrs. ... Kesey’s overall message is that in a dictatorship a person is crushed and loses all individuality, bringing insanity upon him. ... One of the Big Nurses most powerful tactics is to treat men like little children: with pity and condescension. ... She transforms Sefelts, a patient with seizures, natural fear of medicinal side effects onto a child’s fear of the boogeyman. ... 68), illustrates how the patients are manipulated by Nurse Ratched: "The Big Nurse is able to set the wall clock at whatever speed she wants by just turning one of those dials in the steel door". ... Ratched’s effect, which goes so far so that the patients can’t even laugh anymore. ...
Throughout the book there’s a consideration of sanity vs. ... Through McMurphy’s eyes, most of the patients seem to be sane, and is surprised when he learns that they voluntarily brought themselves there. Kesey brings up the question of what is insanity.
Approximate Word count = 1069
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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