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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kesey is a novel about a mental asylum and the inhabitants within it. A new inhabitant named Randall McMurphy is recently admitted to the ward and encourages the other inmates to rebel against the nurse’s rules along with him. However, most patients are reluctant because Nurse Ratched has the ability to punish the patients or let them leave. Throughout the novel, Nurse Ratched treats the patients of the ward extremely poor. She belittles the inmates and even causes physical harm to them through shock therapy and lobotomies. Nurse Ratched embodies everything wrong with totalitarianism societies. In the book, Nurse Ratched has complete say in everything in the ward. Nurse Ratched keeps the patients
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