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Essay Archive - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: An Analysis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: An Analysis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients
and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what
goes on in this institute. The main points in this book deal with control,
be it the character of McMurphy who is unable to handle control, or Nurse
Ratched the head nurse on the ward whose job requires her to be in control.
The world of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is dark; it is a place where
control leads to destruction, but the novel shows through the character of
The Chief that there is still hope if the people wh....
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