Insanity as Redemption on Contemporary American Fiction is a book written Barbara Tepa Lupack. This books holds six chapters about six different literary pieces including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s chapter, “Hail to the Chief”. It mainly talks about “inmates running the asylum.” In the specified chapter of the novel, Lupack gives some introductory paragraphs about Ken Kesey, his life and his reasons for writing this story. Barbara Tepa Lupack says Ken Kesey was a “psychedelic outlaw and a
events that occur in an individual’s life will shape a person’s general worldview, values, and beliefs. Often one may find themselves in a situation where they may have a different view than the world around them. This alternative reality can stem from a fear of change, an inability to realistically evaluate dreams, and the fear of rejection. Overcoming the fear of rejection requires one to act in a courageous manner while simultaneously allowing oneself to feel uneasy through the inevitable changes
Erving Goffman was born on 11 June 1922 in Canada and died in Philadelphia on 19 November 1982. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The most important books wrote by Goffman are: Asylums, Stigma, Encounters, Frame Analysis, Behavior in Public Spaces and Interaction Ritual. The book Asylums is divided into four essays: On the Characteristics of Total Institutions, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, The Underlife of a Public Institution and the Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization