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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Title: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 873 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
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Randle McMurphy & Patients
He waltzed into the ward and introduced himself to every patient as a gambling man with a zest for women and cards. Randle P. McMurphy, a swaggering, gambling, boisterous redheaded con man, arrived at the ward from the Pendleton Work Farm. He was sentenced to six months at the prison work farm, but pretended to be insane in order to obtain a transfer to the hospital because he thought it would …showed first 75 words of 873 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 873 total…to man. Many of the patients have been driven into the ward because of their relationships with domineering women. Kesey often seems to imply that modern society’s biggest problem is the combination of women and power. Ultimately, McMurphy’s success comes through male violence against women, providing Harding’s earlier predictions true. Unfortunately, the reliance on sexist tropes to represent the problems of modern society weakens the overall impact of an otherwise powerful novel.
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