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The book and film of "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" takes place in a lunatic asylum or "Cuckoo's Nest". In the nursery rhyme "one flies east, one flies west, and one flies over the cuckoo's nest". In the story Chief Bromden and others are totally controlled by ex-army Nurse Rached. When new arrival McMurphy arrives he doesn't allow himself to be dominated but takes on Nurse Rached in a battle of wills. He flies east and she flies west. McMurphy wants to help the patients, especially the chief, to recover their pride and manhood from Nurse Rached. He does this with fatal consequences. Any story has several levels of interpretation. At the allegorical level the story mirrors the subjugation or holding down of sections of society for the comfort of those in command. One day a revolutionary leader (Martin Luther King or Pancho Villa) will arrive and attempt to set them free no matter what the consequences.

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The book and film of "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" takes place in a lunatic asylum or "Cuckoo's Nest". In the nursery rhyme "one flies east, one flies west, and one flies over the cuckoo's nest". In the story Chief Bromden and others are totally controlled by ex-army Nurse Rached. When new arrival McMurphy arrives he doesn't allow himself to be dominated but takes on Nurse Rached in a battle of wills. He flies east and she flies west. McMurphy wants to help the patients, especially the chief, to recover their pride and manhood from Nurse Rached. He does this with fatal consequences. Any story has several levels of interpretation. At the allegorical level the story mirrors the subjugation or holding down of sections of society for the comfort of those in command. One day a revolutionary leader (Martin Luther King or Pancho Villa) will arrive and attempt to set them free no matter what the consequences.

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One flew over the cuckoos nest is about a man who has been sent to prison and didn't want to do all the chores in prison so..

he pretends he has a mental problem and is sent to a mental institution he has loads of tests done and because they can't figure out what's wrong with him he stays in there forever

HOPE I HELPED X_X_X_X_X_ ;D

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"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."

"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."

"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."

it is referring to perception. the chief has a different perception on the world

so for example something has happened but the chief percives it a different way

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The moral, or more aptly put the theme, is that man can only truly thrive when free from the oppressive control that society places on individuals. It also stresses the importance of achieving self-fulfillment by expression of our unique differences.

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The film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is about a man named Randle McMurphy who is charged with rape at the beginning of the movie after he finds out his girlfriend is only fifteen. He then pleads insanity so that he won't go to jail which lands him in a psychiatric hospital where he actually fits in quite well. One of the nurses, Nurse Ratched becomes annoyed of Randle's ways which causes most of the conflict in the movie. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and is considered one of Jack Nicholson's great performances.

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The central metaphor of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is that of the machine. The metaphor is introduced early in the novel, through the character of Bromden, and it recurs at regular points throughout. Bromden sees society as a giant machine, which he calls the Combine, and he sees the same machine at work in the hospital. He describes the Big Nurse in machine-like terms. In the first chapter, as he sees her approaching the black boys, "she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load" (p. 5). When he describes her physical appearance, it is in terms that apply to machines: her gestures are "precise, automatic" and "Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made. (p. 5)." But he also comments on her large breasts and regards them as a "mistake . . . made in manufacturing," which she resents because they are a mark of femininity.

The machine-like Combine tries to make machines out of everything, including humans. Bromden dreams that the hospital workers are killing Blastic, one of the patients referred to as a Vegetable. When they cut him up, there is nothing human inside him. Instead, Bromden sees "a shower of rust and ashes, and now and again a piece of wire and glass" (p. 85). The Combine has done its work on him. (Significantly, Blastic dies the very night that Bromden dreams of him.)

The turning of people into machines reaches to the level of language and ideas as well. People who have been "processed" by society no longer have any ability to understand anything that doesn't fit what they have been programmed to hear. When Bromden recalls the incident in which the three government agents wanted to buy his father's land, he remembers they were incapable of hearing any of the things he said to them. He describes their thought-processes in terms of machines. He can see the

seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken (p. 201).

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It is a line from a folk song: "One flew East, one flew West, one flew over the Cuckoo's nest." It has more meaning than may be described in a single sentence. Perhaps most significant meaning is in the fact that cuckoos do not have nests. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. The American usage of cuckoo meaning crazy may derive from the related word cuckold, meaning a man whose woman bears another mans' child.

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The book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) was written by Ken Kesey. Dale Wasserman adapted it to a play.

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