Compare And Contrast Cool Hand Luke And Cuckoo's Nest

Though they take place in different places, many similarities are seen when comparing Cool Hand Luke with Cuckoo’s Nest. This is seen when Both Mcmurphy and Luke get looked up to by their peers, when Luke and Mcmurphy are in confined space, controlled by a leader, and when they eventually rise up and go against the rulers!
First I will talk about how Mcmurphy and Luke are the same. They are the same in a variety of ways! Mcmurphy starts of by being in a psych ward and everyone obeying authority because they are so scared to do anything about it! They all think that they can not get out. Suddenly one day Mcmurphy decides that he can't take it anymore and stands up to nurse Ratched because he thinks if he does than maybe someone will follow

This was the case until one person got the inmates to question if McMurphy was working along with nurse Ratched because he seemed to always avoid becoming in trouble. There is also a character just like Mcmurphy in the Movie Cool Hand Luke his name was luke. Luke was an interesting character throughout the movie. People also looked up to him as most of the movie took place in a prison where they had to listen and submit to authority or they would get beaten, so of course just like Mcmurphy no one except for themselves wanted to step up to authority because they were scared of what would happen. This didn’t stop Luke he got many people to believe in what he said and they would help him try and escape the evil society made by the chief. Another character comparison from the book and the movie was the Chief and Nurse Ratched. First Nurse Ratched was the leader or person in charge of the psych ward she wanted everyone to obey her and not question what she was had to say. If people or her patients questioned her

The setting seemed very similar as it also was different throughout the story. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest took place in a psych ward which was a little different than Cool Hand Luke which took place in a prison. These places are different but in the same way are the same because in a psych ward the things you can do is limited in the same way that the prison limits its prisoners on what they can and can’t do. In both stories the setting helps set the mood and the theme for which the author was trying to get across to the reader. The mood started as kind of dark and sad but as the story continued it seemed to get brighter and have a sense of hope when both luke and Mcmurphy decided to fight against