Kesey: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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"Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has been a very popular work since it was first published, and many also know the story through the long-running theatrical version or the highly successful movie. A feminist critique of the novel would focus on the way the male characters relate to the few female characters. Some critics noted the poor image of women in the novel when it was first published, and this was long before the strains of feminist criticism developed or even what we today call feminism. A contemporary examination of the novel would show much about the novel's attitude toward women and about how Kesey expresses his own prejudices toward women in this book.
Julian Moynihan in The New York Review of Books wrote about the novel in 1964 and called it "a very beautiful and inventive book violated by a fifth-rate idea which made Woman, in alliance (...)"

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• Comparison Essay # 123313 : "'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' & 'On The Road'"
• Analytical Essay # 970 : "Imagery and Metaphor in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
• Book Review # 145835 : "Authority in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Brave New World"

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