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Compare And Contrast One Flew Over To Cuckoo's Nest

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Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” The classic novel, One Flew Over to Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey in 1962, focuses on “Chief” Bromden, the narrator, and his observations on the antics of Randle McMurphy, a free-spirited protagonist who fakes insanity to serve out of his prison sentence. As McMurphy enters the mental institute, he immediately faces conflict with the totalitarian system practiced by the authorities, or the staffs, of the hospital; in response, McMurphy constantly antagonizes the head administrative nurse, Mildred Ratched, and upsets the routines, leading to constant power struggles between the inmates and the nurse Ratched. …show more content…

Surprisingly, both characters share many similar qualities besides their rebellious personality, such as: how they both get placed in a place they dislike which is controlled by an unfair dictator and how they both achieve close friends with one of the patients or inmates. If the Shawshank Redemption (1994) have Warden Norton, the top-authority of Shawshank Prison, as its villainous antagonist, the novel One Flew Over to Cuckoo’s Nest have the Big Nurse, or also known as nurse Ratched, as its main antagonist. “Her face is smiling, pitying, patient and disgusted all at once- a trained expression” (Kesey 152). There is no way to measure which antagonists have heavier resemblance of being evil, but they sure do perform scary tortures towards the

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