To what extent does the writer present the individual as powerless in the face of society in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", portrays a lot of powerless people in the face of society in his novel. I will be writing about on a couple, but mainly focusing on William (Billy) Bibbit. Who was Billy Bibbit? Billy was thirty-one year old man, who was psychologically an adolescent. Ken Kesey, demonstrates Billy's powerlessness, in a couple of places in the text, which will explain the major things that …

…extent- death. But even so for Mc Murphy, who although tried to get the feeling of power back, he still fell to the hands of no mercy. And his reign in the hospital ended up for him being electro shocked, had lobotomy performed on him, and the end result where Chief had to suffocate him, knowing the powerlessness Mc Murphy was feeling in the face of society, and didn't want him to further feel it.