Themes in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo'sNest
by Ken Kesey

 

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• Sanity vs. insanity
• Power struggle/ authority and anti-authority
• The System/ conformity (Combine)
• Machines
• Birds/ flying imagery
• chicken imagery (pecking party)
• Goose imagery (239)  Mrs. Tingle TangleToes is the Big Nurse (240); goose is Mac, whoo swoops in and frees thepatients
• Laughter