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Jake Potter
Mr.Boucher
English
Theme Essay
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Power is the theme of Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, who holds power, who doesn't, who wants it, who loses it, how it is used to scare and trick people and for what purposes, and, most especially, how it is disrupted and subverted, challenged, denied and assumed. On a deeper level, the theme reveals the ways in which an individual in pursuit of power will reduce any others who threaten that pursuit to the level, of the relationship shared between Nurse Ratched and her adversary, Randle Patrick McMurphy.
Before McMurphy arrives at the hospital, Nurse Ratched's routine worksin maintaining a sense of order. However, thisexists not in the hospital but only within the walls of Nurse Ratched's ward. Certainly the routine described by Bromden in the fourth chapter of part one is evidence enough each inmate is assigned a job and is to abide by Nurse Ratched's strict plans, and each inmate......

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