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By Megan Bailey, Gabby Bess, Morgan Isom, and Tracey Smith NOVEL: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

 Examine social relationships  Context of a work in terms of the patriarchal social forces in the culture  I.E.  attitudes towards women  the pressure on female characters  the image of women the work presents  The power relationships of institutions which treat men and women differently

A Feminist Approach To Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 A strong female character with positive aspects instead of a hard lining dictator who runs an oppressive “machine”  History will show that women who procured stature and power in society have always struggled to keep their position, and those who tried to topple these women from their position were always men. In the essay

 novel published in 1962, when America was in the midst of a civil uprising with many social movements (WOMEN’S RIGHTS being one of them)  Women were struggling to make headway in a male dominated society  jobs for women in the workforce were limited: nurse, schoolteacher or waitress.  when women in their field of work did rise to power the men watched them closely.  Kesey, however, put a woman in charge of a mental asylum’s male ward.

 Nurse Ratched’s came to run the ward because a colleague and best friend offered her the position  Because of this the men feel as if they are “victims of matriarchy” because they assume that women stick together in decision making.  Since Nurse Ratched’s supervisor is also her best friend and a female, there are no males to dominate her thinking.  When Nurse Ratched constructed her team, she wanted people who were going to be loyal to her if she ever needed support.

 He wanted readers to fully comprehend the male perspective of how women were viewed in society during his time  He wanted to illustrate that women were beginning to achieve stature and control as they climbed up the proverbial corporate ladder and were making headway in other facets of society  For Kesey to get his point across, he used sexist language and over-personified how the male characters in his novel viewed women

 She should be viewed as a positive character trait and not a negative one.  Nurse Ratched is battling the males in order to gain respect, keep her control over the ward, and to show readers that a woman must defend and fight in order to succeed

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