Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Introduction

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a tragicomic innovative in writing by Ken Kesey and was first released in 1962. It is set in a mental clinic throughout the late 1950s.  McMurphy is recounted as having a “voice blaring and full of hell” as well as a joke that is “free”. The topic of administration and the one-by-one are considered through numerous characters. The never-ending battle between the one-by-one craving for more flexibility and humanity which is comprised by organizations is furthermore depicted through many.   

Analysis

Ken Kesey's tragicomic innovative, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, takes location in a mental clinic throughout the late 1950s. Kesey celebrates the function of the one-by-one and the power he yields, to battle against a current scheme, even though the one-by-one is defeated. Kesey has competently depicted the power though McMurphy and Chief. They both dispute the mechanized organization with the help of other lesser characters (Barry, pp. 35-50).

McMurphy is the only one that arrives into the ward as an individual. Chief sees recounts him as being distinct from all other common admission “I don't discover him slide...he currently abounding condemn clean. Thank You.” He inserts himself to every individual in the ward, agitating hands and loading the quiet with blaring laughter. Kesey celebrates him as the one-by-one who is mighty, dynamic number and one who can dispute the current system. McMurphy directly enlists in a long, impossible, and endless assault with Big Nurse, a classic command freak. She has command over the mechanism that controls the ward (Searles, pp 18-25). It is the mechanism which de-humanizes the other patients and makes them a mass and not individual. This is what McMurphy is to battle for, the flexibility of the patients. What Nurse Ratched likes ...