The theme of matriarchal control in the novel one Flew over the Cuckoos Nest

Matriarchy has often been presented as the “real answer” to patriarchy. The earliest study of matriarchy was published by Johann Jacob Bach fen in 1861 (Das Mutterrecht, The Mother Right), and he viewed matriarchy as an inferior form of societal organization. However, no matriarchies exist in the present, and primary sources recounting them are lacking, and thus the idea of female-dominated societies is generally discounted. In the same year that Das Mutterrecht was published, Henry Summer Maine published Ancient Law, which sought to show that originally all human groups were organized on the patriarchal model. (Joliffe, 212)

The existence of patriarchal society, as well as the theory in practice. Should be noted that, previously known as the matriarchal society (for example, the Iroquois) was originally matriarchal society, even if the Iroquois women wielding substantial power. There have been many attempts in the past labeled as a matriarchal society, most notably the work and Marija Gimbutas. She speculated that she was more than the so-called "old Europe" is a happy, until the patriarchal society of the Bronze Age (the Kurgan hypothesis) arrived in matrilineal. Various archaeological investigation has not confirmed this hypothesis and has failed to provide evidence to support an ancient matriarchal society. (Gimbutas, 29)

In contrast, archaeologists unearthed a variety of examples of patriarchal society, such as the Romans. Evidence clearly shows that Pater familias, is the head of the family, enjoy absolute authority, and the life and death in children and the slave power. Dowry of women through their husband's family under the authority of Pater familias. (Bamberg, 127)

The novel is different authorities continue to control, through subtle coercion and individuals. Narrator, management, and in him to consider a combination of these sectors, requirements in reference to the mechanical processing means and their own personal "integration." Joint body is the most common "Nurse Ratched" character who controls the subtle incentives, through a combination of ward residents and the spirit of the novel the embodiment of shame. Although she generally does not resort to the traditional strict discipline, her actions, has been described as sinister than the traditional prison management. This is because of her actions, to prevent her from a prisoner to understand the subtle, they are controlled. The Administration also believes that the waterfall in the wild Columbia River Selo, where the Indians, the ancestors of his hunting, and in the broader post-war U.S. consumers a combination of social integration dam. Such as a prison psychiatric ward oppression comparable to mirror the key requirements of the new instrument, the French intellectual Michel Foucault at the same time. Similarly, Foucault believes that in the broader social dimensions of the individual intangible forms of oppression to encourage them, discipline inspection themselves and their actions. The novel also criticized the castration of men in society, especially in the Billy Bibbit, acute stuttering character who is a nurse, his mother domineered ratchet.

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