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  • Chief Bromden
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    QUESTION Was Forman compelled to change the point of view in his adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest? ANSWER Forman was compelled to change the point of view in adapting the book into a film. REASONING A. In the book Chief Bromden's thoughts go from stark reality and understanding to dreams and visions which would be difficult for an audience to follow. B. The confusion created by the Chief's switches from reality to fantasy is possible in literary form due to the amount of detail and a...
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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    One flew East, One flew West, One died without a part of his brain. In my opinion the main theme of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is conformity. The patients at this mental institution, or at least the one in the Big Nurse's ward, find themselves on a rough situation where not following standards costs them many privileges being taken away. The standards that the Combine sets are what makes the patients so afraid of a change and simply conform hopelessly to what they have since anything out of...
  • Chief Moves To McMurphy
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    Cuckoo's Nest Essay Sometimes in life people are forced to conform to a certain situation for lack of a better alternative, and this is the case in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. These such people lack the will to stand up for their scruples, and intern are simply guided through their mundane lives by the powers that be. Until someone comes along offering them leadership and the prospect to become "big again". The man who does so is no other than R.P. McMurphy. Scanlon, Harding, Bibbit, and Ch...
  • McMurphy As The Leader And Bromden
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    'Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inn a pens... wire bier, limber lock, three geese inn a flock... one flew east, one flew west, on flew over the cuckoo's nest... O-U-T spells out... goose swoops down and plucks you out. ' The book 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is about a man, Randle Patrick McMurphy who is a rough-and-tumble, fun-loving guy who comes into the mental ward in Oregon and challenges the authoritarian nurse, Ms. Ratched. As the s...
  • McMurphy Acts As A Jesus Figure
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    As he [Jesus] landed he saw a great throng, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a Shepherd. (Mark 6: 34) Jesus entrance is much like R.P. McMurphys entrance onto the ward in Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Much like Jesus, McMurphy saw the people on this psychiatric ward as metaphorical sheep, leaderless and subject to the cunning fox, in the form of Head Nurse Ratched. In this novel, told from the point of view of a deaf and dumb mute, Kesey illustrates...
  • Claire And McMurphy Face
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    Robert Maynard once said, "Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for". The meaning of this quotation is exhibited in both the novels Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time by Charlotte Culin as well as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. These two novels are both amazing books, communicating to us the tales of two heroes and their struggles. Although these two stories are very different from each other, they also share a great nu...
  • Chief Bromden Of A Mental Hospital
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    In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kelsey, the narrative perspective given by Chief Bromden of a mental hospital is portrayed as something surreal. Metaphors are used to back up his concepts as well as machinery imagery. The Three black boys that methodically obey an irritated nurse with a cold heart are just part of the cast of characters that live in what resembles mostly a factory than a sanatorium. The "Fog Machine" is something that the staff gave to the patients for them t...
  • Chief Bromden And The Other Patients
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    Chief Bromden only begins to move towards sanity when he regains self-esteem and the ability to act upon his decisions. Discuss. When talking about a person who is 'sane' it means they are normal. To be 'normal' is to be accepted by 'society'. Chief Bromden calls society the 'combine'. He has been institutionalised because he has been filled with self doubt his whole life and considers himself 'weak'. To have self-esteem is to feel good about oneself. This attribute plays a huge role in Chief Br...

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