In Ken Kesey's "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar," the subject of mental illness is made clear through the discussion of the narrators' experiences in mental hospitals or their everyday interactions with other people. Through descriptions of the emergence of symptoms from both the...
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Introduction One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is an extraordinary novel that addresses both tyranny and revolt in 1950s American mental hospitals. The book was written in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movements when there were many shifts in the attitudes of psychiatry and psychology in America....
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey Explains activities at a psychiatric institution where the struggles between a new student, McMurphy, and Nurse Ratched continue and eventually involve all patients. McMurphy appears at the hospital from jail for evaluation, which leads him to feel that he might be innocent,...
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