Ken Kesey’s Life and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One of the most important novel of 1960’s was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The author Ken Kesey uses a lot of symbolism in this book. He illustrates different themes of reality. Kesey talks about many struggle people face in life. He includes a lot of things that he faced in his life. Which helped the reader to visualize his writing.
Ken Kesey was born and grew up in Springfield, Oregon. He was born and raised very traditionally by his mother and father. His parents were really religious. So the rules and regulations were really tight in the house. That influenced his writing about women in the book. He talks about how “Nurse Ratched is performing a mother figure in the mental institution” (Kesey 33). Which is an example of what he faced at home.
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At that time he did not have any problem testing those out twenty dollars a day. He was told that “ those drugs were really dangerous and not to share with anyone. If he wants to test any of the drugs he has to test it by taking it himself. If he does it on someone else it might do a lot of damage to him”(Kesey 1). It relates to Chief in a way because Chief acts dumb and deaf which is kind of like even though he has problems but he chooses not to share it with others. As he was taught to keep the drugs to himself he applied to Chief’s character.
As Ken Kesey was working on experimenting drugs, sometime later he got into a hospital. He was in the ward with a doctor that had the access to the drugs. So it was really for him to access to the drugs. Then in the hospital he would see all these mental people doing weird things. He would often see it and feel bad. “ Often he would take drugs and see the patients and he would feel really bad for them” (Dansby 1). From that prospect he wrote about how terrible things were going on inside the mental