One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey Annotated Bibliography

One flew over the cuckoos nest by Ken Kesey - Annotated Bibliography ExampleThe significance of the book in American publications is that it is a metaphor for society the dehumanizing force of administrative and medical power is likened to mechanical Combine which is a huge machinery of oppression. Normal human behaviours are suppress and the machinery of power is ch whollyenged by the tragic hero McMurphy. In the end he is lobotomized and finally killed by the narrator. It sounds like a horror story and it has very good themes, but there is a lot of humor in the dialogue and in the quirky character of McMurphy.This book contains a short but interest discussion of the character of Nurse Ratched, the Big Nurse. Using Freudian and Jungian psychological concepts, Aguiar shows how McMurphy sets himself up to fight a huge battle with a distinctive ball-cutter, which reveals his fear of the castrating fe manlike. This is then described as an archetypal mother hatred scenario, and Agu iar suggests that all of the male patients in the asylum see Nurse Ratched as a mother figure, and they apparently masochistically project their fear of their own mothers onto her. The target of McMurphys rebellion is not just the authority that Nurse Ratched holds, but to a fault her actual femininity, and this is made clear when McMurphy attacks her and exposes her large breasts. Aguiar explores a Jungian analysis of this act in terms of the Oedipus complex, but somehow this analysis is unconvincing. After all Nurse Ratched triumphs over McMurphy in the end, and it could be argued that she is as much a victim of the oppressive system as he is. This book pursues a very strong feminist line, but in Keseys novel it finds more questions than answers, throwing up a number of intriguing theories, none of which address the mixed male/female/machine persona that is Nurse Ratched, or the decidedly positive view that the young McMurphy formed of women and heterosexual love.This book examine s issues around the religious character of the