Differences and similarities in the book and film of

There are differences and similarities in the book "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" by Ken Kesey and the movie, which is based on the novel. The characters are the same, so is Nurse Ratchard in both the book and the movie represented as an angry and two faced woman. She wants to have the absolute control over the ward and therefore manipulates the men. The only thing that is not equal in regard to the nurse is here physical appearance. While she has a face like a baby doll with a small nose, white skin and baby-blue eyes, pink lips and nails and big breasts, which she tries to hide in the book, she is more a normal woman, without remarkable make-up or breasts in the movie. But her character and behavior is represented in the same way. She doesn't like McMurphy, who actually was on a working farm, but could manage to be send to the hospital. There he wants to have a nice time and entertain the other patients. He plays poker and basketball with them and slowly gives them there self-confidence back, which they lost over the last years under the control of the nurse and therefore he wins there appreciation. The nurse and he seem to be in competition the whole time, who of them has more influence on the patients. He is played exactly the same way as he is described in the Kesey's original: as an open and self-confident man with oxblood colored skin, who is walking like a

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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest One of the first important factors in this novel would have to be the title, it originates from a children's rhyme; "One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoos nest". In the rhyme, it goes on to say; "goose swoops down and plucks you out", the symbolic title helps to give us the impression that McMurphy attempts to "swoop down" and "pluck" out the patients of the psychiatric ward. But he is faced by a nurse, appropriately described as "as big as a tractor", an excellent simile to emphasise the power of Nurse Ratched. Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest", describes the nurse's appearance by saying that she has "skin like flesh-coloured enamel", yet another simile demonstrating her non-human appearance. Randle McMurphy - a loud, dirty and confident man. His free laughter stuns the other patients, who have changed in their time in the institute and therefore do not show their emotions as 'normal humans' or sane people do. Throughout the entire moment of his introduction, not a single voice rises to meet that of McMurphy; "What happened, you see, was I got a couple of hassles at the work farm...", he stats a conversion without even waiting for someone to ask him why he is at the institute, he does not give anyone the chance go speak unless he speaks to them. McMurphy's uniqueness as a sane man in the novel

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'Dare to be different' is a phrase that is easier said than done. In Kasey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

'Dare to be different' is a phrase that is easier said than done. In Kasey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kasey demonstrates this by conveying the theme that society does away with individuality. Conformity has been promoted in past societies and still is being promoted in today's society. To be different means to face criticism and mockery by one's peers, and colleagues. Just as the characters in Kasey's novel faced opposition and suppression with their attempts not to be 'rabbits', people today that try to speak out, or go against the masses face comparable opposition and suppression. Kasey in his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest uses conformity as one way to prove his point that society does away with individuality. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there is a mass conformity on the mental ward where the novel takes place. The men on the ward will not go against or question the manner in which Nurse Ratched conducts the affairs of their daily lives. This frequently happens in the daily lives of people today. Often people will not question the Nurse Ratched's of the world (individuals in power), they will just go along with what they are told to do without questioning why they are doing this task or if this is the best way for me. The trend in past societies and society today is to go with the flow and let the people in power worry about the

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compare 2 2oth century stories about enclosed rooms

Comparing two 20th century short stories about enclosed rooms We have been introduced to a selection of 20th century short stories based on enclosed rooms. In this essay I am going to compare the similarities and differences between The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Judge's House written by Bram Stoker. The Yellow Wallpaper is written by a woman suffering from a nervous breakdown in the form of a journal. By making it in the form of a journal you can see the woman's rapid decrease in mental health. This is very different from The Judge's House, which is written in third person so you never really feel the full emotion of the main character. The Judge's House is about a student looking for a quiet house in a town where he has no connections to anybody he knows so he can fully concentrate on his studies. He finds a desolated house with an almost ghostly atmosphere, which he thinks the perfect destination for his studying. This is similar to The Yellow Wallpaper because it is also about trying to find complete isolation for the lady suffering the nervous breakdown. Her husband is a physician and decides that the best thing for his wife is to spend a few months on an estate where she can cure her depression. She

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One flew over the cuckoos nest - Narrator essay

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Narrator Essay A prose in which the writer uses a memorable narrative technique is “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey. The story is told by Chief Bromden, a patient in a psychiatric ward who has severe paranoia giving him a distorted perception of reality. The head nurse in the ward, Nurse Ratched, is an extremely controlling and oppressing character who manipulates the patients and keeps them and the ward in a rigorous routine. Initially the ward is run as if it was a prison, but from the minute the brazen and outspoken McMurphy sets foot on the ward it is clear that he is going to cause havoc and help to change things in the ward. In the beginning of the novel, the Chief explains that he has fooled everyone in the ward including the Nurse into thinking that he is deaf and dumb. This gives the Chief, and the readers, a privileged viewpoint of the events in the novel. A scene in which this is particularly relevant is in the staff meeting: “The staff always let me clean the room because they didn’t think I could hear.” In the ward, the staff always discuss private matters in the staff meeting and because the Chief stays in the room, he hears all the secrets. In this staff meeting, the Nurse makes it clear that she doesn’t like McMurphy or his motives. We also gain insight into the fact that there is a clear

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One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest Essay 1

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a tragicomic novel written by Ken Kesey and was first published in 1962. It is set in a mental hospital during the late 1950s. McMurphy is described as having a "voice loud and full of hell" as well as a laugh that is "free". The issue of authority and the individual are discussed through many characters. The never-ending fight between the individual craving for more freedom and society which is represented by institutions is also portrayed through many. Kesey seems to follow a fairly straightforward course in unfolding the plot of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Except for a few flashbacks and digressions, the story is essentially told from beginning to end. The first-person ("I") narrator Chief Bromden, however, is a schizophrenic - a person prone to hallucinations and delusions. As a result, the reader is sometimes unsure whether some of the events he describes really happened or not. The setting plays a pivotal role in the novel, especially because it rarely changes. By keeping the action in one place - the Chronic/Acute Ward of a mental institution - Kesey is able to create a whole society in miniature. As the novel opens, this society is an ordered holding pen for men who have various degrees of mental illness. When the outsider McMurphy arrives, he brings the monotonous, repetitive qualities of this setting into focus. The

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Discuss the presentation of McMurphy in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and Offred in "The Handmaid's Tale" in their response to an authoritarian and oppressive environment.

Sophie Anderton Discuss the presentation of McMurphy in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and Offred in "The Handmaid's Tale" in their response to an authoritarian and oppressive environment. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, published in 1962, is the formation of both the personal experiences of its author, Ken Kesey, and the specific culture in which it was written. Kesey developed the novel while he attended Stanford University as a graduate student. The novel was partially inspired by Kesey's part-time job as an orderly in a Palo Alto veterans' hospital. It was also as a student where Kesey began participating in experiments that involved the use of LSD. This use of LSD provoked Kesey to have hallucinations while working as an orderly. Kesey hallucinated seeing a large Indian mopping the floors of the hospital; this hallucination prompted Kesey to add the character Chief Bromden as the novel's narrator. The novel in some sense forms a bridge between the bohemian beatnik movements of the 1950s and the 1960s counterculture movement. Kesey was significantly inspired by the beatnik culture around Stanford, and in the novel Kesey deals with a number of themes that would be significant in the counterculture movement, including ideas of freedom from repressive authority and a more liberated view of sexuality. Kesey himself became a highly influential counterculture figure as

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Compare the ways in which psychiatric institutions and mental illness are presented in Barker's 'Regeneration' and Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'.

Compare the ways in which psychiatric institutions and mental illness are presented in Barker's 'Regeneration' and Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' The novels 'Regeneration' by Pat Barker and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey are both centred on events that take place within psychiatric institutions. The protagonist of 'Regeneration' is Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier protesting against war who is sent to Craiglockhart psychiatric institution for assessment because of his views. In comparison, 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' focuses predominantly on Randle McMurphy, a character who seems to have contrived to get himself admitted to a mental hospital in Oregon to escape the rigours and hardships of prison life. An immediate similarity between both these characters is that neither Sassoon nor McMurphy appears to be truly insane, and consequently one might say that they do not belong in a mental hospital. In 'Regeneration' Sassoon presents the British government with his Soldier's Declaration, an act of 'wilful defiance' signalling his refusal to fight. The Soldier's Declaration is a document that proclaims that it is wrong for soldiers to keep fighting when the war could be ended on diplomatic terms. This poses a problem for the government. One course of action for them would be to shoot Sassoon for desertion. However, this would be unwise, since shooting

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Mark Lisbon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest This American film made in 1975 is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital. The story begins, when a new patient Randall Patrick McMurphy arrives at the hospital, after being convicted of statutory rape, although almost straight away it is suspected by Dr Spivey and other prison guards of 'faking it' so he can escape hard labour at the work farm. When he arrives at the institution he threatens Nurse Ratched straight away with his sheer arrogance, and ideas of freedom and sexuality. McMurphy will offer hope and determination against Nurse Ratched's oppression. As soon as McMurphy arrives at the institution he meets some very abnormal, and mentally ill people. Firstly he introduces himself to Dale Harding, who is president of the patients council and Billy Bibbit, who seems a very young mentally ill patient. Dale Harding seems relatively sane but there still are some abnormalities about him. He seems to be dominated by his boisterous wife, who intimidates him with her sexuality, and the fact he cant get over his wife's adultery, affects his self confidence and lowers his morale mainly because of his sexual inadequacy. It is quite possible that Harding is a closeted homosexual. Billy Bibbit on the other hand has some certain characteristics that could be seen as abnormal. He appears very young, mainly due to his

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Victims Villains or heroes? Compare the ways in which men are presented in Bladerunner and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Victims Villains or heroes? Compare the ways in which men are presented in Bladerunner and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In Bladerunner and Cuckoos Nest Men can only Dubbed as victims, villains or heroes or a mixture of the three. Although all the male characters throughout the film and novel can be slotted into one or more of these attributes only the most significant characters for each of the attributes will be mentioned in detail. The ways in which the characters are presented not only comes through the character themselves but also through the use of literary techniques and in Bladerunner's case, film techniques such as lighting sound and camera angles. J.F. Sebastian and Billy Bibbit are the two main victims in the film and novel. J.F. like Billy is victimised by something that effect him physically, his disease where he ages to fast which in turn stops him from going to the off world making him stay on earth with the rest of society's outcasts. Billy also shows these characteristics that Sebastian has as Billy is also excluded from society due to the physical fault that he has his stutter, this also effects Billy's way with women and at Billy's age being a virgin due to this just makes him even more of an outcast as it is an unlikely situation that you'd be a virgin at his age. Another way that these characters are victimised is through appearance, Billy looks

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