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1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

2 Just read this Short Summary One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden, called Chief Broom, a huge man whom all of the inmates and staff assume is deaf and dumb. Bromden often suffers from hallucinations during which he feels the room filling with a dense, overwhelming fog generated by a huge mechanized matrix called The Combine which controls everyone in its grasp. The institution is dominated by Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse), a cold, precise woman with calculated gestures and a calm, mechanical manner. When the story begins, a new patient, Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives at the ward. He has just come from a work farm at Pendleton as part of his sentence for statutory rape. He clearly is completely sane and lucid, at the hospital only to avoid the work detail. Ratched immediately pegs McMurphy as a manipulator.

3 Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols
Take notes on this Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols Rebellion Against Authority (Individualism) Vs. Conformism Repression vs. Sexual Freedom: The conflict is represented by the war between McMurphy (freewheeling, instinctive, "natural" sexual freedom) and Nurse Ratched (clamped-down sexual mores). Roles of Women (novel criticized for being sexist)— will we agree?

4 Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d
Take notes on this Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d *Independence vs. Acquiescence: Throughout the novel, we consistently root for the inmates to find freedom, either through a mass escape or by overthrowing the regime and winning a new order in the institution. *Race Relations (novel criticized for being racist)— will we agree?

5 Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d
Take notes on this Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d Self-Interest vs. Altruism: McMurphy’s character is worth considering in comparing the drives for altruism and self-interest. Does he act primarily for himself or others? Mind vs. Matter: Kesey’s novel illuminates some ways that people imprison themselves psychosomatically, using the mind to trap the body.

6 Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d
Take notes on this Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d * Fear vs. Experience: The inmates tend to be prisoners of their own fear. Kesey suggests that modern society, represented by Nurse Ratched’s institution, preys on fear, and that authoritarian, repressive regimes, whether in the government, the home, or the workplace, rely on fear to control individuals.

7 Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d
Take notes on this Major Themes / Ideas / Symbols cont’d Christian Symbolism Bird Symbolism (Cuckoos and others) Machines (central metaphor for society/ government/authority in the novel)

8 Title Significance: Cuckoos
Take notes on this solitary birds they don’t build their own nests the females lay their eggs in another bird’s nest and often kick out the host bird’s eggs or her chicks when they are born the “moms” leave their eggs in the other bird’s nest so the chicks must be fed by the host bird the babies are often larger than the selected host, thus essentially intimidating the host to feed them

9 Just read this The Nursery Rhyme Ting. Tingle, tangle, tremble toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts ‘em inna pens…wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock…one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest…O-U-T spells out…goose swoops down and plucks you out.

10 As you read Consider… how each of the themes is developed
Just read this As you read Consider… how each of the themes is developed how the details about the life of Cuckoos relates to the novel who the characters in the rhyme relate to in the novel.

11 Guide to Pages in Different Novels Part I
Change the page numbers on the study guide according to which book you selected Signet w/ Logo (smallest book) Signet w/ Yellow Background Big Blue Book 9-28 3-26 3-22 29-53 27-55 22-47 53-77 55-84 47-72 78-101 85-113 72-97 97-122

12 Guide to Pages in Different Novels Parts II & III
Signet w/ Logo (smallest book) Signet w/ Yellow Background Big Blue Book Part II Part III

13 Guide to Pages in Different Novels Part IV
Signet w/ Logo (smallest book) Signet w/ Yellow Background Big Blue Book 260-End 310-End 264-End

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