One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: McMurphy
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with its meaningful message of
individualism, was an extremely influential novel during the 1960's. In
addition, its author, Ken Kesey, played a significant role in the development of
the counterculture of the 60's; this included all people who did not conform to
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Middle of paper
.... writing Cuckoo's
Nest. Upon testing the effects of the then little-known drug, LSD, "…he was in
a realm of consciousness he had never dreamed of before and it was not a dream
or delirium but part of his awareness (322)." This awareness caused him to
believe that these psychedelic drugs could enable him to see things the way they
were truly meant to be seen.
After working as a test subject for the hospital, Kesey was able to get a
job working as a psychiatric aide. This was the ne ....
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