Please explain why you think the book is entitled One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Your response must show that you have read the text, use text details or quotations, and be at least 200 words.
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The novel “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” has many interpretations. Randle Mc Murphy the main character of the novel represents the cuckoo bird because he settles in the mental institute even though he does not belong there. He is there because he prefers staying at the hospital rather than doing what he did before, working at a farm. This behavior is compared to the cuckoo bird which lays his eggs in the nest of other birds. As he takes advantage of the mental institute the cuckoo bird takes advantage of other birds nest, therefore in the title the nest represents the mental institute. Another interpretation of the title of the book is that nurse Ratched, the antagonist of the book represents the cuckoo bird. Cuckoo in English is also a noun, it means insane, the nurse represents the bird because she is probably more mentally ill than his patients which she oppresses, which are represented as the mentally sane characters of the novel.
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ReplyDeleteOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the most famous books in the 19th century ever written. The book, by Ken Kesey, was a sue to all the abuses that were made in that time, specifically in the mental houses. Every sentence in the book as a symbolic meaning in it; starting from the most seen, the title.
Many thoughts were given for it. The most obvious is the metaphor of the cuckoo’s nest, in fact the cuckoo doesn’t ever build his own nest but instead leaves his eggs in someone else’s nest. In fact Mr. Mcmurphy arrives in a place which is not his: the mental hospital in fact is not his place to be, because he is not crazy but only a delinquent. Another meaning can be: someone came to upset plans, more for Ms. Rachel, the ex-army nurse, than for Mcmurphy. He let “crazy” people that they weren’t really as crazy as they thought but they were able to do things as every “normal” people can; for example gambling, betting all they have (cigarettes) and even sleep with a prostitute, even if for Billy Bibbit meant his death. Another way of looking at it is: someone came and will change the nest’s master, Mcmurphy makes the mental hospital looks like a real house in which patients are not patients anymore but they are masters of the “house” and free to decide for their lives.
The last meaning I wanted to show is: someone came and denounce that there is something wrong and weird in the “nest”. This to let the reader understand how procedures in 19th century’s mental hospitals were just cruel, unnecessary and wrong. This book opens our eyes on a world we didn’t even imagine existed.
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The book is entitled One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for 2 specific reasons. First a playful name for a mental asylum is a "cuckoo's nest",the word cuckoo means to be mad. To "fly over a cuckoo's nest" is to go too far, to get yourself in trouble. Though this can eventually be refered to the character of McMurphy being too much of a free spirit and eventually disturbing Nurse Ratched so much that he receives a lobotomy as result of this act. Second The title can also refer to the ending, where two characters died(Billy and Mc.Murphy), and Chief Bromden escaped the Asylum or "Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest". It is also known that Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests, and do not have nests of their own. The Cuckoo,when trying to find a territory, throws the other birds out of the nest without instinct. Summarizing these i think could be the reasons for the title of this book.
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