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one flew over the cookos nest


            
             The novel is presented through the viewpoint of the paranoid schizophrenic Chief Bromden. The author, Ken Kesey, portraits the dulling personalities of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy and the oppressive Nurse Ratched. The power struggle between the two takes place within the confides of a psychiatric hospital where conformity on patients is achieved through electroshock therapy and lobotomies. The patients are classified either as curable Acutes or Chronics. The Acutes are voluntary at the hospital, while the Chronics are the result of the staff's oppression.
             When the new patient, McMurphy, enters the ward, it is evident that he is not like any of the other patients. It is uncertain if his he is truly insane, or faking in order to avoid hard labor on a work farm. McMurphy threatens Ratched's control over the ward with his uncanny comments on sexuality, and his rebellious approach on life. He defined his own insanity as a result of too much fighting and sex. McMurphy attempt's to spark life in the insensible patients result in dissension and a series of clashes between McMurphy and the Nurse. The turning point in the novel is when McMurphy takes the patients on fishing trip. This is when it becomes evident that the patients are opening their minds to McMurphy's revolutionary ideas. The men's new adopted attitude only pushed the nurse to more repressive measures. In the end Ratched becomes victorious over McMurphy through his lobotomy. However, the newly revived patients carry on McMurphy's spirit with many of the Acutes leaving the hospital. It is the Chief who carries McMurphy's message by suffocating Ratched's most recent "trophy' and then escaping the hospital.
            


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