What point was Kesey making by allowing Bromden to be the one that gets out while McMurphy was sacrificed?
And isn't it funny how this book is still relevant with today's healthcare?
What point was Kesey making by allowing Bromden to be the one that gets out while McMurphy was sacrificed?
And isn't it funny how this book is still relevant with today's healthcare?
Good lit transcends generational changes. Loony bins aren't as prevalent since Reagan, but now we have more meds to deal with more diagnoses of differing levels of assorted psychosis so even more people get labeled as not being quite right. Thinking & acting outside the box still frowned upon by the controllers.
McMurphy chose to party in the hospital instead of leave with the girls so the other patients could get a taste of what they were missing (my take). He had to be sacrificed by the author so Chief could tell his story/a literary device.
MacMurphy is a Christ figure and is sacrificed for the disciples. One of the great books of all time, some of the descriptions Kesey used such as "brain murdering room" and "shock shop"; "head installations".. Bloody brilliant.