1. Personal liberation in the book seems to be defined as finding one's self and purpose and not being brought down by conformity. The book doesn't seem to be anti women more like anti bossy women. "good female characters are females who aren't afraid to flaunt their feminism and body.
2. Nurse Ratched's name is significant because Ratchet mean set of teeth on a bar wheel allowing motion in one direction only and I'm pretty sure her name comes from that because there is only one way in the ward and it is her way.
3. America in this era was a matriarchy because women in this time period were discovering themselves and developing. They were doing new things that women have never done before so at this time women were running the world one step at a time.
4. This book has a lot of racial slurs but i really do not think it is racist just that he is trying to catch the dialogue of that time. During this time Blacks were not really accepted as first class citizens.
5. When McMurphy was about to get electrocuted he asked for his crown of thorns so that alludes to Christ and the patients looked up to him like a God. I guess Candy would be the Virgin Mary even though she is not exactly a saint.
6. The Mental hospital is like a mini version of America because it shows a person in charge who wants their citizens to conform to their rules and terms and hippies revolted against that.
7. The parallels suggested between communism and liberalism is that both need to be destroyed so people do not have to conform to rules and regulations that are not necessary. Most of the communist behavior is displayed by Nurse Ratched.
8. Chief Bromden is a reliable narrator to me because he tells the story accurately and tells a little about himself. Being Indian is significant because it seems Indians have been fighting to conform to whites for centuries and since this is a book about fighting conformity Indians need to be in it.
9. Freudian Theory and thoughts seem to be about unconscious thoughts dealing with repression and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud believed that people repressed painful memories into their unconscious. Since the book is dealing with repression Freudian seems to go hand in hand. Source: http://www.iep.utm.edu/freud/
10. Since this book is about the evils of these drugs then Hippies were using dangerous stuff. If this book really reflected how drugs can change a person then Hippies were in danger because these drugs were really powerful and back things doctors would approve anything.
11. It is like a manual for people trying to rebel against conformity. Almost like a bible of sorts to the rebels just starting out. Showing them that you can defeat conformity because McMurphy did it.
12. This is a powerful theme because not a lot of people criticized America because most people were afraid to speak out. Kesey thinks modern America went wrong when they started making people conform to unnecessary rules and when they started being double standard and hypocritical.
13. It seems cynical about democracy because when the patients were in the meeting and everyone voted to use the tub room but Nurse Ratched pretty much vetoed them even though it was in the interest of the patients. So maybe Kesey's believes democracy does not truly exist since the government think they make the right choices for us.
14. They gloried criminals and lunatics that should be self explanatory why the 1960s radicalism went wrong. They made them seem like misunderstood people and some of them are but most are really crazy and irrational.
15. McMurphy sees gambling as a chance to control everything for once. He can control what he does in the game but he can not control the outcome just the input.
16. Big Nurse is genderless, mechanical, and unemotional. Big Nurse symbolizes a machine.
17. The book portrays liberation as leaving the hospital when they are ready not when they are healed in the Nurse's terms. They feel like they can join society once more.
18. I actually could not really tell when he was on LCD in certain parts in the book maybe the part when Bromden was remembering his childhood after being shocked toward the end of the book because everything seemed crazy.
19. Laughter makes all the problems go away. well not go away but it makes people forget stressing things such as problems and just live a little.
20. The Loonies are more healthier than the sane because they are taking the time to actually think about the problems in their life while people on the outside repress their problems because they feel they have other things going on in their lives. insanity is the only sane response to a crazy world.
21. The arguments that Kesey seems to being forward is to laugh, fight conformity, and live. Which is great for a society because conformity can be suffocating and make people turn into loonies.
22. The author uses a lot of imagery and similes. It paints a picture in my mind when I read it and he uses diction very well.
the answer to number one is dope. Usually in the books we read, there is a onesidedness of the views of women.
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