One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: An Analysis
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients
and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what
goes on in this institute. The main points in this book deal with control,
be it the character of McMurphy who is unable to handle control, or Nurse
Ratched the ....
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.... with a woman. The nurse feeling the need to
control Billy threatened to tell his mother. Billy begged Nurse Ratched
not to tell her but when his requests were refused Billy slashed his neck
with a broken bottle and killed himself. Billy's life was destroyed
because of Nurse Ratched's need to control others.
Another place that we see the dark world is when we examine the
relationship between Nurse Ratched and R.P. McMurphy. McMurphy is a happy
and rebellious man. He is not used to bein ....
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