Corruption In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

In recent years, many Americans on both sides of the political spectrum have been showing very counter-cultural attitudes via the internet and their choice of president. These attitudes are similar to that of people living in the 1960’s. In that period of counter-cultural ideas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, a counter-cultural book, was published. One major theme that frequently appears throughout the book’s entirety is Corruption of power, as the antagonist, Nurse Ratched, displays the tendencies of corrupt, undemocratic leaders throughout the novel, as the novel builds her up as being a very power-hungry individual. Nurse Ratched’s corrupt character, as well as her neglect of democracy in group sessions and neglect for the helpless mental patients shows that the purpose of Nurse Ratched’s character may have been to provoke thought about whether we Americans truly live in a fair and democratic nation. The definition of Corruption (in the context of politics) according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by powerful people”. In order to rise into power in the United States, one is elected into power by the people of the

With the current electoral college system, there exists winner-take-all states that gives the winning candidate of a political party all of the state’s electoral votes, which results in the election system ignoring voters who have different viewpoints, just like Nurse Ratched ignored the Chronic’s viewpoint. The electoral college system has been around since the time of Kesey, which further implies that the inclusion of Nurse Ratched’s rigged voting system may have been intentional, so that the reader can question whether or not vote rigging occurs in the real