Brittney Engel
Thesis: Imagination and things unseen are themes used in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as a security to explain the unexplainable and as an escape from understanding and dealing with reality.
I. Deaf and Dumb
A. It is an escape from dealing with reality.
B. It is a result of the past.
Chief’s childhood Story
McMurphy’s childhood Story
II. Cartoons
A. They show people as cartoons.
B. They explain things that seem unreal.
Nurse Ratched
Fights in the ward
C. They give a comical approach to terrible events.
Swelling hands
Truck imagery
Sliding down wall
III. Machines
A. They show people as Machines
B. They show the ward as a Machine
Combine
Invisible Mechanical devices within ward
C. They give reasons for things that happen on the ward
D. They are used because Chief Bromden understood machines better than people
IV. Fog
A. It is used as an escape from reality and not dealing with the issues at hand.
B. It diminishes after Chief Bromden owns up to his existence.
V. Glass
A. It shows a breakthrough of things unseen.
B. McMurphy owns up to reality.
Brittney Engel Thesis: Imagination and things unseen are themes used in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as a security to explain the unexplainable and as an escape from understanding and dealing with reality. I. Deaf and Dumb A. It is an escape from dealing with reality. B. It is a result of the past.
IV. Fog A. It is used as an escape from reality and not dealing with the issues at hand. B. It diminishes after Chief Bromden owns up to his existence. V. Glass A. It shows a breakthrough of things unseen. B. McMurphy owns up to reality.