One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestThe author of the novel sets this story in a mental institution located in the Pacific Northwest. The manuscript was written in the early 1960s, when issues related to social norms were under the spotlight. In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Ken Kesey examines how the appearance of a controversial mental patient affects everyone around him at the asylum. This character created by Ken Kesey, Mr. McMurphy, introduces many themes such as: man versus man, man versus machine, treatment of the clinically insane, and the insane versus the sane. The narrator of this novel is Chief Bromden "Chief Broom", an inmate believed to be both deaf and mute. His feint is mainly aimed at diverting attention. This is the longest hospitalized patient since World War II. Through this narrator, the author focuses on Randle Patrick McMurphy who is also detained. The latter was found guilty of assault and battery and gambling. He feigns insanity to serve his sentence in a psychiatric establishment as an alternative to prison. He does this to escape prison work and is convinced that in a mental institution he would find comfort. As a result, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Oregon. (Kesey, p. 9) As a result, McMurphy was portrayed as antagonizing Nurse Ratched and her practices, leading to a power struggle between the inmate and the nurse. It has been clearly described that the connection between disability and gender in the novel is represented by the idea that the men in the neighborhood are incapable of asserting their respective masculinity and that this is ultimately the main cause of their institutionalization. Looking further the individual...... middle of paper ...... in the facility against the team members, especially the head nurse, Ratched, leading to a wave of rivalry between the inmates and the nurse. Although she ends McMurphy's reign, Nurse Ratched is ultimately defeated by him due to the new mindset of all the patients still living in the ward. McMurphy was so powerful in the room that the only way to defeat him was to modify his brain. This tragic operation caused Chief Bromden to kill his best friend due to his inability to see McMurphy live in his new state. This effectively shows McMurphy's influence on everyone in the asylum. Works Cited Adelman, Irving and Rita, Dworkin. The Contemporary Novel: A Checklist of the Critical Literature on the English-Language Novel Since 1945. Lanham, Md. [u