One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (novel)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1959 novel written by Ken Kesey. The novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital. It was adapted into a Broadway play in 1963 and a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. Time magazine included the novel in its \”100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005\” list.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1959 novel written by Ken Kesey. The novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital. It was adapted into a Broadway play in 1963 and a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. Time magazine included the novel in its \”100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005\” list. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC’s The Big Read poll of the UK’s 200 \”best-loved novels. The book is narrated by a gigantic yet docile half-Native American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf and mute. The tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve his sentence for battery and gambling in the hospital rather than at a prison work farm. He runs a card table, captains the ward’s basketball team, comments on Nurse Ratched’s figure, incites the other patients to conduct a vote about watching the World Series on television, and organizes a deep-sea fishing trip wherein the patients were going to be supervised by prostitutes.
The Chief reveals late one night that he can speak and hear, leading to a violent disturbance after the fishing trip results in the Chief and the Chief being sent for electroshock therapy sessions. He has received a lobotomy and is now in a motionless state, rendering him silent and motionless The Chief smothers the Chief with a pillow during the night in an act of mercy before lifting the tub room control panel that he could not lift earlier, throwing it through a window and escaping the hospital. In the novel, the Chief is the only one who survives the lobotomy. The book was written in 1959 and published in 1962 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and the deep changes to psychology to change the way psychology was practiced. It has been described as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of psychiatry and a tribute to individualistic principles. It is one of the most popular novels of all time.
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