One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Released in 1962, it tells of a corrupt mental hospital and serves as an examination of psychiatry and institutions as a whole.
Characters[]
- Chief Bromden - the half-Native narrator of the novel who pretends to be deaf and mute
- Randie McMurphy - a prisoner transferred to the mental ward
- Nurse Ratched - a tyrranical head nurse
- Billy Bibbit - a nervous Acute with a speech impediment
- Dale Harding - the unnoficial leader of the patients
- George Sorensen - an Acute with extreme germaphobia
- Charlie Cheswick - an Acute who befriends McMurphy
- Martini - an Acute who frequently hallucinates
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Publisher's summary[]
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1996 | A novel which somewhat similarly examines psychiatry |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | A novel which somewhat similarly examines psychiatry |
Sources[]
- Goodreads
- Wikipedia