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One Flew Over the Cuckoo

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Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo


1
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
  • A Down and Dirty Summation

2
Emerging Themes and Motifs
3
Individual vs. Institutional Authority
  • Randall Patrick McMurphy--RPM, betting, bragging,
    laughing, self-reliant
  • the Combine didnt get him, a moving target is
    hard to hit
  • Note the attendants reaction to him
  • Chief Bromdens father

4
Betting and believing in oneself
Learning to stand up for oneself But I tried,
though. Goddammit, I sure as hell did than much,
now, didnt I? Cheswicks cigarettes
5
Power and Powerlessness
  • We are victims of a matriarchy here.
  • Stereotypes of women and blacks
  • rabbits and wolves
  • machines

6
Power and Powerlessness
  • Guilt, fear, shame
  • Images of emasculation, castration
  • What does the novel ultimately say about the
    nature of power?
  • Images of bigness and size

7
  • government and minorities--Columbia Gorge
  • The Fishing Trip
  • Never before did I realize that mental illness
    could have the aspect of power, power.

8
The Combine
  • Rules and Order--Red Chinese Prison Camp
  • Mechanized
  • Control--time, fog, music, radio, television
  • The Shock Shop

9
  • Nurse Ratched,
  • wires, machines with flaw inside that cant be
    repaired
  • The Ward is a factory for the Combine.
  • routines, policies

10
  • categories rather than individual
    patients--Acutes Chronics, Walkers, Wheelers,
    Vegetables, etc.

11
Sanity vs. Insanity
  • Truth vs. Fiction
  • But its the truth even if it didnt happen.
  • Acutes
  • McMurphy
  • other nurses at the end of the book

12
Gambling
13
Fog Machine
  • Drugs and medication
  • Safety and withrawal
  • I cant do nothing for you either, Billy. You
    know that. None of us can.
  • Protection/hiding or control
  • Cover up
  • He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out
    in the open where wed be easy to get at.

14
McMurphy
  • Tattoos--She gave them to me because she said I
    was a symbol.
  • RPM
  • martyr

15
Religious images
  • Matryr or saint
  • lack of faith

16
Violence and Fights
17
Quotations?
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