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

Narration, Metaphors, Images and Symbols in virtuoso Flew oer the Cuckoos Nest In 1962, when unrivalled Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (the Nest), was published, America was at the start of disco biscuit that would be characterized by turmoil. Involvement in Vietnam was increasing, civil rights marches were pickings place in the s outh and a new era of cozy promiscuity and drug use was about to come into full swing. materialization Americans formed a subgroup in American society that historians termed the counterculture. The Nest is a product 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 obligate a social commentary on the America of the sixties. In this root I go forth deal with three issues that seem to strike out from the story. First is the choice that Kesey made in his decision to write the novel using first person narration. The second differentiate of this paper will be an ana lysis of some of the metaphors and Kesey uses to describe America in the sixties. in the long run I will speak about the some of the religious images that Kesey has put option 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 organization 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 frequency and visual hallucinations. He makes constant reference to the fog, the combine, and the machine. Bromden lives in a worldly concern 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 telephoner of Canada Limited, 1962. Klein, Maxwell. The Images and Metaphors of Flower Children. Chicago University of Chicago Press. 1988. Kunz, Don. Mechanis tic and Totemistic Symbolization in Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. A Casebook 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 pass Style in Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Northern watery (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>