One Flew Over the Cucko's Nest

One One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest In our study of this novel of rebellion, and protest. The ward in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is microcosism of a much larger world, where power is too often misused and individuality is stifled for the sake of conformity.By using Chief Bromden as the Narrator Kesey pulls the reader right in to the middle of this by taking the only character that can …

…lives, which led them to their psychological castration. This is obvious patient Billy Bibbit a thirty one year old man whose mental problems were due to his over domineering mother , who was friends with Nurse Ratched. The downfall of Billy was toward the climax of the novel when "The Big Nurse" brought to the surface Billy's inability to stand up to his mother and her years of psychological castration, and soon after, led his suicide.