"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

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This paper examines the play, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and focuses on the characters of the play. The characters explored are Randal McMurphy and Nurse Ratched.

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""Papa, they're foggin" it up again..." Thus begins the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," by Dale Wassermann. (Wasserman & Kesey, 1974) The person uttering these words is Chief Bromden, a Native American inmate of an institution for the mentally unstable. The best-selling novel by Ken Kesey inspired this play. (Kesey, 2002) The contents of the novel can be viewed at several levels. Some of them Orwellian ("Animal Farm" (Orwell, 1974) and "1984" (Orwell, 1984)), some a metaphor for the free-spiritedness of the 1960-70s; other interpretations are biblical. (Perry et al., 1990) Most interpretations of "One Flew..." however, do not take into account the literal interpretation. Perhaps Ken Kesey, based on his personal experiences during the time of the novel, did indeed want to indicate the sign of the times and the antiestablishmentarianism of the prevalent and burgeoning Flower Culture. (Whitmer, 1987) In that Kesey was successful."

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