One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Essay

Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The title One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is directly referring to a character. The character who went over the Cuckoo’s Nest was McMurphy. This makes the connection that the asylum is truly a Cuckoo’s Nest full of insane men. The more important detail, however, is the fact that one went over it. This is demonstrated as before McMurphy all the men bowed to the Big Nurse and followed her every command. Although, she was sometimes questioned, the men broadly just accepted her rules. The men weren’t seriously mentally ill but moreso insane in their passive way in what power they gave the Big Nurse. McMurphy, however, did not accept the rules and began an epic saga of battles between the two. Throughout the book he would continue to challenge her and call to attention her acts of corruption. Thus as McMurphy always stood up to the Big Nurse he truly never entered the Cuckoo’s Nest, he was the one who flew over it.
Author:
Ken Kesey was born on September 17th, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. He

Along with his first novel he also published Great Notion (1964) and many other stories, essays, and nonfiction work. To try and spread word of Great Notion and promote a new type of liberation, Kesey formed a group called the Merry Pranksters in 1964. This group travelled the whole country from the New York World Fair to Kensey’s ranch in California on a bus. During this trip they would give out LSD laced kool aid and try have the person not freak out. Kensey and the group are largely credited for the hippie movement of psychedelic drugs during the 60’s. However, he was arrested for marijuana possession in 1967 and would serve six months on a work farm. After he would settle back with his family in Oregon teaching graduate classes at his alamodome and publishing more