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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Ken Kesey’s use of minor imagery in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The writer argues that Kesey’s makes use of the imagery of fog and cartoons to support his characterization, particularly in regards to Chief Bromden. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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a totalitarian mental institution that is more concerned with following routine than with helping the men achieve mental health and their own highest human potential. As this suggests, the plot
of the novel can be summed up by saying that it is about the "misuse of available and legitimate knowledge to further illegitimate goals" ("One flew" 115). Keseys hero is
Randle Patrick McMurphy and McMurphys nemesis is Nurse Ratched, who represents the soulless nature of totalitarian institutions. A psychologically complex work, this examination looks at Keseys makes use of the
imagery of fog and cartoons to support his characterization, particularly in regards to Chief Bromden. Chief Bromden is a six feet seven inches tall half-breed Native American. His father
was a chief among the Columbia Indians. However, he married a domineering white woman who dominating nature extended to his father taking her last name, rather than the reverse. Chief
Bromden narrates McMurphys story. A principal feature of Chief Bromdens consciousness is his focus on the fog machine, as he "believes that his intermittent sense of disorientation must come from
some outside mechanism" (Semino and Swindlehurst 143). Bromden perceives himself wrapped in fog throughout a great deal of the novel. This is both symbolic of his medicated state and
his urge to hide from reality. The fog is also the state of mind that Nurse Ratched prefers and which her routines and tactics of humiliation impose upon Bromden and
the other men. When McMurphy arrives within Nurse Ratcheds domain, he is equated by the reader with the Western "gunfighter coming in to save the day" (Alvarado 351). McMurphy, quite
literally, pulls Bromden and the other men out of their "fog" and towards sanity. Cartoon imagery constitutes another minor symbol that Kesey uses extensively and which serves to underscore
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