Similarities Between One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest And The Magic Mountain

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In the novels One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and The Magic Mountain there are many similarities between both novels. The novels are also alike in many ways including setting and plot. Both novels take place in a hospital-like place for the most part, and both narrators grow and learn from their peers while they are there. In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the narrator Chief Bromden is in a psychiatric hospital and suffers from hallucinations. Ken Kesey tells  a story of Chief Bromden, other patients such as Randle McMurphy, Billy Bibbit and more and the jarring Nurse Ratched (Kesey). Thomas Mann writes The Magic Mountain places the narrator Hans Castorp in a sanatorium in Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim Ziessen:, however he can’t seem to leave the sanatorium as he becomes ill. …show more content…

Hans Castorp remains at the sanatorium for 7 years (Mann). In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Chief Bromden is introduced in a very fragile, insecure and vulnerable state as the novel progresses and new characters are introduced his actions and attitude change. At the end, he is emboldened and he is no longer being pushed around by others as he was at the beginning of the novel. The same goes for Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain, Hans is set to have a boring job. At the end of the 7 years Hans has learned and sees the world with a different point of view. He decides to join the military where it is assumed he will meet his death. The only difference in terms of plot between both novels is that Bromden changes for the better which benefits himself, and Castorp changes for worse. Kesey and Mann both include different characters with different personalities and philosophical point of views so that the narrator's can learn from them, which in turn changes the

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