Who Flew Over The Cuckoo s Nest - 2161 Words

A Crazy, Normal Perspective of: One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest In One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the concept of insanity is proven as a state consipred by society, but is represented as an illness that one individual grants on another. Kesey’s writes his novel through the mind of Chief Bromden, a patient in a mental hospital, who becomes inspired to rebel against the ward by a character named McMurphy. Through characters like McMurphy and Chief Bromden, Kesey shows that the men are not mentally ill, instead they are disturbed by the corrupted treatment from Nurse Ratched. McMurphy and Bromden â€Å"are resocialized to play a passive and apathetic role rather than an active one in an effort to change troublesome patterns†¦show more content†¦The Chief fools everyone by playing deaf and dumb, so the patients in the ward talk â€Å"out loud about their hate secrets when I m [Bromden] nearby because they think I m deaf and dumb. Everybody thinks so.† With Bromden’s intelligence he notes that, â€Å" If somebody’d of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year –old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they’d of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.† because he knows that the ward makes the men crazy, not their own minds. Watching a blank TV because Nurse Ratched shouts at you too is a over exaggerated version of reality, and how people like political leaders give the orders while we all obey. In the ward the Chief is taken over by a fog of fear that consequently began in his time in the ward because he fears society in which he has not been able to face in many years. In the fog dreams the reader is able to learn about society through the metaphors of his dreams because they all have the same meaning: society craves conformity. Being a tall Indian man, Bromden feels out of place in the ward, so he steps away from others and becomes deaf and dumb because he feels as though he doesn’t fit. Chief Bromden’s fog dreams give the reader