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A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Kesey and Farina, A Comparison Research
Compiled By - April, 2012 properly! Ken Keseys One Flew Over the
Cuckoos Nest and Richard Farinas Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me are both iconic cult classic novels that are set in the 1960s. They share many
features, as Keseys protagonist Randle Patrick McMurphy and Farinas main character Gnossos Pappadopoulis are both anti-heroes who defy the traditions and norms of conventional society. However, despite these similarities, examination
of the two novels indicates a principal difference, which is that while McMurphy is feigning mental illness, Gnossos actually is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). McMurphy has feigned mental
illness in order to avoid doing imprisonment and hard labor on the county work farm after being found guilty of assault and battery. McMurphy quickly rebels against the restrictions imposed
upon the patients that strike him as arbitrary, capricious and against his individualistic ideals of a just society. Much of the action of the novel concerns the various ways in
which McMurphy thwarts the wards standard routine. This guerilla warfare results in energizing the ward and McMurphys fellow patients, as he introduces laughter and vitality through prohibited activities, such as
gambling. McMurphy even succeeds in smuggling liquor and women onto the ward, which results in a hilarious party. The main thematic thrust of Keseys novel presents the clinical environment
in which McMurphy finds himself as feminizing its male patients, as they are not allowed a outlet for their creative, normal and sexual urges.1 The oppressive feminine domination that is
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