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Symbolism In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Kesey utilizes the symbolism of fish and a similar circumstance to Jesus's disciples to help McMurphy appear as a Christ figure. McMurphy organizes a fishing trip for the patients in his ward to do something for entertainment. Nurse Ratched continuously tries to scare the patients out of going to sea with continuous reports of rough seas and fishing accidents. However, despite her efforts, twelve of the patients agree to go to sea with McMurphy. He,“led the twelve of us to the ocean”(203), McMurphey took the patients that had grown to follow him to the ocean, to help develop them more and help them to be more normal. The patient's function as his ‘disciples’ that follow him despite the fact that not all of them have the same level of devotion
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In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey uses the motif, Christ and Savior to find faults within society demonstrating that one should sacrifices oneself in order to save others from tyranny imposed by authority. In the beginning of the novel, the motif, Christ and Savior is not prevalent within the ward. However, as McMurphy appears, the figure of Christ and Savior starts to reveal by McMurphy’s actions. While the men think McMurphy is going to stand up for them against Big Nurse, he says, “I couldn’t figure it at first, why you guys were coming to me like I was some kind of savior.

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