Theme Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Gender stereotypes have been around for hundreds of years and still are today. The stereotypes for women are strict in regards to jobs and homelife, behavior, and even attire. They keep a firm hold on women 's daily life, so whenever women get the opportunity for power, they will take it. Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest, strongly features the stereotypes of women and, adversely, women in power; Kesey displays his opinion that women in power will abuse their status to manipulate men. One aspect of Kesey’s display of his distaste for influential women, is displayed through the character, Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse).

Many people argued that if you gave women the right to vote, the women would help improve the government and help them progress. Elizabeth Stanton spoke in front of the National Woman’s Suffrage Convention and stated, "'Manhood suffrage' or a man’s government, is civil, religious, and social disorganization. The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish, aggrandizing, loving war, violence, conquest, acquisition, breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disorder, disease, and death" (Stanton). The government won't gain any element of strength if all the ballots are just men. Also, men tend to be on the more aggressive side.

The 1960's were the beginning of social rebellions, like, women's rights movements and the Civil Rights Movement. Women in positions of authority were perceived as manipulators and castrators. For example, one of the most controversial points McMurphy makes in the book is the fear of women, and the women in the book are constantly described as threatening and terrifying figures. Most of the patients have been damaged by relationships with overpowering women. Chief's mom is portrayed as a castrating woman.

Prejudice and discrimination had a major impact on societies, all around the world in the 1930's. Throughout Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird there is evidence that Maycomb citizens are morally blinded and are callously indifferent due to the social setting of the town. Lee uses the voice of a young girl names Scout Finch, to highlight the racist and judgmental perspectives of the white community towards the black, during the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. As the innocent girl matures she starts to learn of the reality around her through, race, gender discrimination, and social prejudice. Gender discrimination is a large issue in the plot of the book, especially when it came to people such as Scout.

The Crucible was a fictional story about the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts, written by Arthur Miller. A conflict Miller writes about is that many of the characters are motivated by jealousy. Jealousy is a terrible emotion; it brings out the worst in people just because they aren’t getting what they want. Like when Abigail is jealous of Elizabeth because she is married to John Proctor, another example is how Thomas Putnam is jealous of people who have land, and then Ann Putnam is jealous of Goody Nurse for having so many kids when she has none. Abigail Williams let jealousy get the best of her when she lusted after John Proctor.

In Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies the theme of entrapment is seen multiple times throughout the book, mainly to represent the authoritarian regime of Trujillo. There are several different types of entrapment in the book but the main three are the discovery of entrapment, physical entrapment and the roles of women holding back the women from fulfilling their destinies. These three point mainly surround Minerva, who can be considered the bravest sister for being the first one to get involved with the revolution, but the other sisters deal with entrapment as well. In in the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez writes about entrapment, even at the beginning she starts to introduce symbols and quotes that hint at the huge theme throughout the book. Minerva is the first sister to discover this in the book.

Roumel Ibanez P:4 ERWC Brave New World Essay The purpose of my paper is to explain how men and women are not equal in Brave New World. From the very start of the book, huxley had made men superior to women. At tthe start, the Director gave a tour of the Hatchery to only male students. This shows how the book shows that men and women are not equal in Brave New World. Throughout the book there were restrictions placed on women.

Being in a more patriarchal society, it shows that the majority of men didn’t really notice their status over their females since the idea of women wanting power was unthought of until he was told by the older lady. That same older lady didn’t just give the knight that information without any benefit to herself, within the whole scenario the knight still was underneath the control of women. Something that at the time was very unknown and many could claim that it’s the epitome of what women have struggled

Judith Butler once said, “Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed, but socially constructed.” In the novel Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth do not conform to the gender roles society has created, but follow the roles that they have mentally. Lady Macbeth takes on the stereotypical male gender roles while her husband is taking on roles that could be seen as traditional female roles. Shakespeare reverses the stereotypical gender roles to challenge the traditional gender roles of power, masculinity, and leadership. First of all, Shakespeare changes the stereotypical gender role of power through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Men are typically seen as more powerful than women in this time period and even now, but Shakespeare explores

These women did not conform to the traditional role of the wife and mother. Femme fatales are usually destroyed in the end, either by being killed or being domesticated, as though they are being punished thinking they can compete with men. Male dominance is always restored by the end of the film. In established film noir, the new economic, social, and sexual freedom that women experienced during the war years as they joined the workplace was quite unsettling to many American men. This fear of strong, independent women and the need to show the danger of this independence was shown, whether consciously or not, in most film noir.