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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Introduction

Ken Kesey wrote the very famous novel, “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest” in 1962. This was his first best known novel. The story is about of a savior, who triumphs over the notorious rulings of big Nurse Ratched and her huge influencing machine, “Combine". The combine is a machine perceived to run the world by fine-tuning the external and the internal working. The novel is about the psychiatric patients, who with the help of McMurphy, discovers their long suppressed strengths. It describes how McMurphy puts the malicious and machine like rule of Nurse Ratched to an end. The book became a counter-cultural classic. It set the basic principles for the entire rebellious generation (Lupack, 2000, pp 566-567). The interest of it continues to rule the new age group of readers, in the late twentieth century, because it is articulated in a comedic and entertaining manner.

Summary

The novel's beginning seems to reflect Ken Kesey perception life as a form of art. Kesey is a graduate student at Stanford University in the 1950s. Another student tells him that the experiments with "psychomimetic" or LSD drugs were being conducted at the Veteran's Hospital in Menlo Park. Kesey enrolls to be a subject for these experiments and will be paid for it by the U.S. government. Kesey admits and calls himself a jock, who has never been drunk but only one night in his house before his wedding day, in his own Kesey's Garage Sale (1973). He begins to take LSD and other hallucinating drugs. After the drug experiments, Kesey worked as an attendant at the night shift in the psychiatric unit and usually worked under the influence of LSD, where he had access to medicines of patients.

The novel is set ...