superiority over others. Perhaps the hard demanding of themselves, and ignoring the common human needs like sleeping, the perfectionism, coupled with genetic predisposition, have become triggers for lasting reactive psychosis with delusions and hallucinations (Nasar. 2011). Based on the facts set out in the film, the disease rapidly progressed throughout the year. It is possible that stress the decisive factors in the rapid development of the disease are the periodic contacts with government agencies
lives and prevents them from ever thinking about anything real. It both helps them to live this way and prevents them from ever trying to improve their situations. As Chief says, the men hide behind the fog because it is comfortable. Chief Bromden’s hallucinations are dominated by a thick, debilitating fog that only begins to wane with the
We, as a society, tend to characterize people as “insane” if they act differently than what we deem to be “normal.” It is easier to decide that some people are just not sane than it is to try and appreciate and learn from other people’s differences. By doing this we have blurred the lines between sane and insane. This trend is discussed in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In this book it is hard to distinguish between the sane and insane characters, even though the novel is set in a mental
16, 2014 A Reflection on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey In the novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there is a prominent theme of female dominance. The characters Nurse Ratched, Harding's wife, Billy Bibbit's mother, and Chief Bromden's mother all represent dominating females. Each of these women are planning on dominating men by emasculating them, whereas the “whores” Candy and Sandy are dedicated to pleasuring men and doing what they're told. Kesey aims higher than asserting male