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Introduction

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Ken Kesey’s tragicomic novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, takes place in a mental hospital during the late 1950s. The book can be read […]

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Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey was born in 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. The family moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public school before matriculating and graduating […]

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Plot Summary

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A Part 1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the story of a few remarkable weeks in an Oregon insane asylum and the events […]

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Characters

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A Chief Bromden Chief Bromden is the schizophrenic narrator of the story, and has been in the mental institution since leaving the Army shortly after […]

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Themes

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A Individual vs. Society The main action of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest consists of McMurphy’s struggles against the strict rules of Big Nurse […]

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Construction

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A Point of View Kesey seems to follow a fairly straightforward course in unfolding the plot of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Except for […]

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Questions

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Write a short essay or story on what would happen if McMurphy took a job in a large corporation with a formal culture and a […]

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Compare and Contrast

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Early 1960s: In 1962, the Cold War reaches its most fevered pitch during the Cuban Missile Crisis. U.S. President John F. Kennedy imposes a naval […]