had impacts stronger than man. Ken Kesey accurately shows the struggle of the patients of a psychiatric ward that struggle with the impact of a stronger matriarchal society. By writing while experiencing the effects of hallucinogenic drugs, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest shows the struggles faced throughout the nineteen-fifties and sixties while also finding multiple ways to show the readers his realist views on life. Throughout the span of his life, Ken Kesey faced struggles, but persevered
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Restricted But Not Forgotten Throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the mental hospital is rocked mercilessly by the arrival of Randle McMurphy and his rather inappropriate manner. Literature and classic novels such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest contain issues heavily criticized by concerned parents and children. Whether the issue contains profanity, violence, or content too mature for young readers, concerned parents and students continue to threaten to
Ken Kesey used a psychiatric institution as an extended metaphor and microcosm for American society or as Dr Spivey puts it a ‘made-to-scale prototype of the big world outside,’ Kesey did this to symbolise how American society dealt with people who didn’t conform to the social norms at that time, and were classed as insane. The novel is set in the late 1950’s and the book was published in 1962. In this essay I’m going to examine the factors that may have encouraged Kesey to write the novel, how