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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
INTRODUCTION
As all movies are created based on a book, there always seems to be changes and conflicting ideas. However, they still have the same main idea to the story line. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and the movie directed by Miloš Forman deal with the main idea of society's control of natural impulses. The author/director want to prove that this control can be overcome. Although the movie and the book are very different from each other, they still have their similarities.
MAIN BODY
I. In General Differences
A. Point of View
1. In the book, Bromden tells how society is a Combine and shows all his inner thoughts.
2. In the movie, Bromden does not have an inner narrative.
B. George Sorensen, the germophobe
1. In the book, Sorensen tells McMurphy about his past as a sea captain and leads the fishing trip.
2. Sorensen is not present in the movie.
C. Taber
1. In the book when McMurphy arrives, Taber has already been treated and released.
2. In the movie, Taber is included throughout.
D. Bromden's Background
1. In the book, Bromden tells about his life before the hospital.
2. In the movie, it tells nothing about Bromden's former life.
E. Dr. Spivey
1. In the book, Spivey is intimidated by Nurse Ratched
2. In the movie, Spivey is has no issues with Nurse Ratched
F. Cheswick's Death
1. In the book, Cheswick drowns in the pool.
2. In the movie, Cheswick doesn't drown, goes on the fishing trip, and is sentenced to the Disturbed Ward.
II. The Beginning Differences
A. World Series Situation
1. In the book, McMurphy and the other patients remain in front of the television after it has been turned off.
2. In the movie, McMurphy and the other patients pre...
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... in the book, and in the movie he seduced the girl.
3. In the book, McMurphy gains money from the patients, and in the movie it only shows him getting cigarettes.
VII. Symbolism
A. McMurphy's Tattoo foreshadowing his death is removed from the film.
VIII. Themes
A. Natural v.s. Institutional
B. Transcendentalist
CONCLUSION
With all the awards and praise, the movie was considered to be a masterpiece. On the other hand, Ken Kesey felt that this production would ruin his mindset of his own novel. The main reason why there were more differences between the book and the movie was because Kesey had arguments with the producers, Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz. Of course, everyone has a different view of how a story should be told. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is superb as both a movie adaptation and a novel that all critics can appreciate.
Kesey through changing the structure of power in a society showed the similarity between the oppressed and the oppressor. This was a demonstration of the corruption of power, and a push back to the era. It symbolized an era of radical thinking of changing the power structure, but he advocated making all equal. In addition it exemplified the communist views of the era and the oppressive regime of those with absolute control. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest advocates the quest for equality in a time where disparity in power was great.
Kunz, Don. Symbolization in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A Casebook on Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ed. George J. Searles. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1989.
This essay will be exploring the text One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey and the film Dead poet’s society written by Tom Schulman. The essay will show how the authors use over exaggerated wildcard characters such as McMurphy and Keating. The use of different settings such as an insane asylum and an all-boys institution. And Lastly the use of fore shading to show how the authors can use different texts to present similar ideas in different ways.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a film directed by Czech Milos Forman in 1975. Using potent elements of fiction--characters, conflict, and symbolism--Forman illustrates the counterculture of the 1960’s. This film depicts American society as an insane asylum that demands conformity from its citizens. The film begins with a conniving convict being assigned to the asylum. R. P. McMurphy is sent to the asylum to be evaluated by the doctors and to determine whether or not he is mentally ill. He is unaware that he will be supervised by an emasculating woman named Nurse Mildred Ratched who watches the patients’ every motion from her nurse’s station.
Violence and death surrounds everyone, from movies to books to news. These subjects are particularly prevalent in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Kesey's main goal for writing the novel was to show his readers the atrocities within mental health wards. However, he managed to have a greater impact in young adults' lives than ever imagined. Although there are instances of death and violence in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, it should be included in high school curriculum because exposure to these topics helps teenagers to properly deal with similar situations in their own lives.
Sutherland, Janet R. "A Defense of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NEst." English Journal 61.1 (1972): 28-31. JSTOR. Web. 31 Oct. 2013. .
Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ed. John Clark Pratt. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1996. Print. Viking Critical Library.
Change is necessary in life, without change the world would become a very dull place with very little interest being arisen. However, change within the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Milos Forman is one that only makes the film an un-credible source for accurate depiction of the book. The film with high critical acclaim is consistently flawed by a change of perspective from the book to one of which the director interprets it to be. Due to these reasons , the film represents a successful adaptation of the book which is skewed by a biased opinion on the events that occur within the ward and how one man’s opinion can alter the perspective for all viewers because the differences in representation of characters causes an untrustworthy point
2. The iota of depth in the book made it a hard plot to follow.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kesey in 1962. This novel is based on the experience Ken Kesey had during his time working in a mental institution as an orderly. Ken Kesey’s novel is a powerful critique of early 1960’s American society. The three main techniques that Kesey uses to create the Tragic form. In this novel Kesey has used the three main technique to create an inevitable conflict and outcomes that is similar to tragedy. The three main literary techniques that Ken Kesey uses are narrative structure, foreshadowing and symbolism. In this essay I will explore how Kesey uses these three techniques to form the Tragic form and shows how McMurphy gets lobotomized in the end but still wins the war against the Big Nurse.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was a critically acclaimed novel written by Ken Kesey and later on a movie adaptation, directed by Milos Forman, which was similarly critically acclaimed earning itself an extremely high 96% on rotten tomatoes. However said appraisal of both works, does not excuse the gleaming errors and artistic licensing seen throughout the entirety of the film. Granted there were no major plot holes and alterations present, the physical descriptions of the various characters within the story as well as their behavior differed quite a bit from their silver screen counterparts. The most critical physical and behavioral differences can be seen quite clearly when comparing the book versions of Nurse Ratched, Randal McMurphy and the ward patients of the mental institute.
“Bromden’s point-of-view is necessary to make the characters big enough to be equal to their job” (Kesey). The reliability of the narrator, Chief Bromden, in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has been debated between different parties since the novel was published in 1962. It is unknown to most people whether to believe that everything Bromden states in his account is the truth or mere figments of his imagination. The author, Ken Kesey, purposely wrote Bromden as the narrator for a specific purpose. He did not want the narrator of this novel to be similar to any conventional novel written before its time. There are many arguments on both sides, but Bromden’s narration both highlights and detracts from his reliability at the same time.
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
...rtrayed differently in the movie. Lennie is shown as being very mentally challenged, whereas in the book he is just a little slow and has a mind of a young child. Although some changes are made in the movie to make it flow better, it is still based on the same story as the book. The movie has the same plot line and characters, and some of the scenes are told in the exact same way as they are in the novel. As well, the movie and the book give out the same themes. This story is about how all the people in the Great Depression were trying to escape their unhappy, lonely lives, but weren’t capable of doing so. The movie stays very true to the book even though some things are removed or added. Everything that is added or changed still works very well and captures the film perfectly.
Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a story about a band of patients in a mental ward who struggle to find their identity and get away from the wretched Nurse. As audiences read about the tale, many common events and items seen throughout the story actually represent symbols for the bigger themes of the story. Symbols like the fishing trip, Nurse, and electroshock therapy all emphasize the bigger themes of the story.