Similarities Between The Tempest And One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

The most significant ramification of discovery is change. Change can be seen in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ and Ken Kesey’s book ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ as a result of discoveries both about the characters themselves and the others around them.
Change is often essential to a plot, so the discovery that leads characters towards it is vital and can be the most important thing in the entire story.
Prosperos discovery of mercy leads him to regain political power and leadership. It is likely that desire for revenge has lain dormant in Prospero and after 12 years of being secluded on the island, his enemies are now within his grasp and Prospero revels in it. His desire for justice was so great that he commands his spirits to torture

When speaking of Ferdinand “the first that e’er (she) sighed for,” Miranda shows her love for him, by giving him her name, helping him with his duties and asks to be his bride, all actions which she believes Prospero will get angry at her for. She shows her independence from her father through being assertive over her desires to be near Ferdinand, going so far as to declare herself to be his maid if she cannot be his bride. The dialogue between the lovers is consistently full of praise to the other, which proves that it is through her discovery of love; Miranda is willing to go against her father in an effort to be with Ferdinand, showing her increasing maturity and

Chiefs begins in the book as a schizophrenic, paranoid inpatient who hallucinates about the Combine: mechanized matrix that enforces a control over humankind. Throughout the book, Chiefs paranoia of the Combine is shown to be getting smaller and in the latter half, Chief tells the reader that he knows "this time I had them beat," indicating that his sanity is nearly restored. This occurs through the interaction with McMurphy with whom he begins to communicate verbally. His discovery leads him to no longer see the fog that the Combine would emit on the ward. Chief's confidence is restored by McMurphy's ideas to help him. His salvation is completed when he performs a mercy killing on the lobotomized McMurphy and escapes from the