... are inherently a transformative process, with opportunities taking the form of new understanding of both a character's self and the context surrounding them. Both Shakespeare's comedic play As You Like It and Ken Kesey's post-modernist novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," portrays the transformation of its characters throughout the texts, via a close examination of the gradual evolution of character that occurs ... serves to ultimately glorify the sacrifice of McMurphy within the eye of the responder, serving as further redemption within the character's own context. In Shakespeare'...

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In Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the motif of castration is used to exemplify the fact that women in a position of power have the capacity to emasculate even the most masculine of men, thus contradicting modern societal issues relating to sexism. Kesey references castration to de...

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