1. Jump to first page One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A Down and Dirty Summation

2. Jump to first page Emerging Themes and Motifs

3. Jump to first page Individual vs. Institutional Authority n Randall Patrick McMurphy--RPM, betting, bragging, laughing, self- reliant n “the Combine didn’t get him,” “a moving target is hard to hit” n Note the attendants’ reaction to him n Chief Bromden’s father

4. Jump to first page Betting and believing in oneself Learning to stand up for oneself “But I tried, though. Goddammit, I sure as hell did than much, now, didn’t I?” Cheswick’s cigarettes

5. Jump to first page Power and Powerlessness n “We are victims of a matriarchy here.” n Stereotypes of women and blacks n rabbits and wolves n machines

6. Jump to first page Power and Powerlessness n Guilt, fear, shame n Images of emasculation, castration n What does the novel ultimately say about the nature of power? n Images of bigness and size

7. Jump to first page n government and minorities-- Columbia Gorge n The Fishing Trip n “Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power.”

8. Jump to first page The Combine n Rules and Order--”Red Chinese Prison Camp” n Mechanized n Control--time, fog, music, radio, television n The Shock Shop

9. Jump to first page n Nurse Ratched, n wires, machines with flaw inside that can’t be repaired n “The Ward is a factory for the Combine.” n routines, policies

10. Jump to first page n categories rather than individual patients--Acutes & Chronics, Walkers, Wheelers, Vegetables, etc.

11. Jump to first page Sanity vs. Insanity n Truth vs. Fiction n “But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.” n Acutes n McMurphy n other nurses at the end of the book

12. Jump to first page Gambling

13. Jump to first page Fog Machine n Drugs and medication n Safety and withrawal n “I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. n Protection/hiding or control n Cover up n “He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we’d be easy to get at.”

14. Jump to first page McMurphy n Tattoos--”She gave them to me because she said I was a symbol.” n RPM n martyr

15. Jump to first page Religious images n “Matryr or saint” n lack of faith

16. Jump to first page Violence and Fights

17. Jump to first page Quotations?