Now First and Foremost, i must Explain this, I payed little attention to the novel and
movie, but this Essay will more then likley get you a C or a B, Depending on if you make
changes to the paragraph that starts with
The portrayal of woman in One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is in a way, a role reversal.
The Woman are strong, leaders and feed off the power they possess as the men are weak,
passive-non aggressors who get ordered around and (until the introduction of McMurphy)
have no say in what activities or what happens.
it retells the story too much and needs fixing but i think that i have almost done this with
my final copy, please e-mail me on kippa_dog@hotmail.com if you can think of a better
way of putting it.also, make sure that the Language is set to your countrys in microsoft
word and fix all the “errors” made by my document seeing as im from Australia. with all
that done, heres the Essay, esse!
Word count: 1017
One flew over the cuckoos nest has been criticized for its treatment of race and gender.
Why do you think this is the case? Discuss this appraisal of the novel
Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest has been criticized because of its treatment of
race and gender. Due to many different themes in the story, such criticism is deserved
because of its blatant
misuse of imagery to depict woman and black men in the story. Nurse Ratched who is the
head nurse of the mental ward in the story, rules with an iron fist, has descriptively large
breasts in the story and is portrayed as a stereotypical mean old woman. Vera Harding is
another good example; she is the openly sexual and attractive wife of dale Harding, also a
patient at the ward, who goes around when at the ward and flirts with other men. There is
also the issue of the friends of main protagonist McMurphy, two prostitutes who show up
occasionally in the novel and are depicted as mere objects. All of these women are
portrayed negatively; the women are depicted as either frigid monsters or whores, in fact,
the woman are portrayed so that the only “good” women in the novel are the good-hearted
prostitute.
There is also the issue of the mistreatment of the African-American nurses aides towards
the patients by Kesey, with mentions of them being sadistic sodomites, and implications
