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how does ken kesey’s one flew over the cuckoo’s nest use ambiguity,…
how does ken kesey’s one flew over the cuckoo’s nest use ambiguity, outlandish metaphors, and characterization to develop mcmurphy as a saviour, used to highlight the antipathetic perception of mental illness in the 1960s?
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pre mcmurphy
aviodance
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“there is no country, society or culture where people with mental illness have the same societal value as people without a mental illness.”
ignorance
patients who are voluntarily confined (harding, billy, etc)
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ambiguity
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outlandish metaphors
associated with the fog, the ward as a machine, and the nurse as a robot
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while + post-mcmurphy (saviour, cowboy, martyr)
rebellion
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prostitutes, pills, drinking, alcohol (all previously unthought of)
(when talking about escaping) “I cant speak for them,” Harding said. “They’ve still got their problems, just like all of us. They’re still sisk men in lots of ways. But at least there’s that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men someday. I can’t say.”
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warning
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ending of book
suicide, shock therapy, and murder
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action
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mcmurphy runs his hand through the glass, and then many of the patients find thier own ways to break the glass
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clarity/reflection
big chief coming out of his shell and starting to talk, take action, and remember
“it was the first time in what seemed to me centuries that I'd been able to remember much about my childhood”
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“maybe the combine wasn’t all powerful. What was to stop us from doing it again, now that we saw we could?”
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