Narration, Metaphors, Images and Symbols in One Flew Over the Cuckoos

Narration, Metaphors, Images and Symbols in One Flew all over the Cuckoos Nest In 1962, when One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (the Nest), was published, America was at the bag of decade that would be characterized by turmoil. Involvement in Vietnam was increasing, civil rights marches were taking place in the south and a new era of cozy promiscuity and drug use was just about to come into full swing. Young Americans formed a subgroup in American society that historians termed the counterculture. The Nest is a ware of time when it was written. It is anti-authoritarian and tells the tale of a mans rebelling against the establishment. Kesey used metaphor to make a social commentary on the America of the sixties. In this paper I forget deal with three issues that seem to strike out from the novel. First is the choice that Kesey made in his decision to write the novel using first psyche narration. The second persona of this paper will be an analysis of some of the metaphors and Kese y uses to describe America in the sixties. Finally I will speak about the some of the religious images that Kesey has put in the novel. For the reader of the Nest, the most familiar character of the story would be Chief Broom Bromden, a half Indian, paranoid schizophrenic, who has been in the institution since World War two, (about 15 years). He spends his days dwelling in the clouded mind that his mental illness has produced. This illness is characterized by audio and visual hallucinations. He makes constant reference to the fog, the combine, and the machine. Bromden lives in a world inhabited by people who have been implanted with machines. In part one of the novel, we read nothing but the delusions of a madman. The novel opens ... ...illan Company of Canada Limited, 1962. Klein, Maxwell. The Images and Metaphors of Flower Children. Chicago University of Chicago Press. 1988. Kunz, Don. Mechanistic and Totemistic Symbolization in Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. A Casebo ok on Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Ed. George J. Searles. Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press. 1989. Pratt, John Clark. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. New York The Viking Press. 1973. Semino, Elena, and Swindlehurst, Kate. Metaphor and Mind Style in Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Northern Light (online posting) Spring 1996. <www.northernlight.com/cgi-bin/pdserv?cbecid=6619970923010053874&ho=monsoon&po=508&cb=0> Unknown Author. Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. (online posting) <httpwww.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/kesey.html>