Biblical References In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Now he’s nailed against the wall… in the same shape, arms out, palms cupped, with the same horror on his face” (Kesey 14). After the Big Nurse overloaded Ellis with electro-shock therapy, she nailed him to the wall in the shape of a cross. This is just one of the many examples in the novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, which is similar to an event that happened in Biblical times. Although most people consider the novel to be a comical book, many of the characters in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest relate in many ways to people from the New Testament of the Bible. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel about patients in an insane asylum. The main character, McMurphy, comes into the ward as a new patient and immediately lets everyone know that he is the “Bull Goose Looney” (which is his phrase for the leader of the patients on the ward). The other men are intrigued and somewhat hold back from him at first. The narrator, Chief Bromden, is half-Indian. He pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to beat the horrible system in which the patients are forced to follow daily. As the story progresses, McMurphy rebels against the Big Nurse, and encourages the other patients to stand up for them
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