Theme Of Fog In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the author Ken Kesey encrusts allegedly a polished outlet to how McMurphy’s persona has not only initiated change in the mental hospital’s policies themselves, but in a more personal level to the narrator Chief himself who has witnessed the unraveling effects of McMurphy on his character as he becomes extracted from the engulfing fog in his hallucinating state of mind. Adding on, to extend the idea of Chief’s illness to an extent the author embeds the use of fog as a versatile symbol to both symbolize a sheet of protection from the troubling atmosphere and as a way to wage how his troubles heighten as the fog thickens exponentially to the manipulation of Big Nurse accordingly to her desires. For …show more content…

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As a result, McMurphy gains momentum and support from the other patients due to his courage, moving Chief to feel a rush of hope for himself as he often fears the fact of getting lost in the fog or in other words he has been given the key to repeal the Big Nurse “dictatorship” and feel that he has a say once again. Furthermore, after McMurphy lost the first voting for the World Series he one again brought it up in another meeting, however this time he got the majority after he stimulated Chief to raise his hand and the reasoning that “McMurphy did something to it...can’t stop it” as he got the confidence he has previously lacked and that last push from McMurphy to get him out of the fog and the rage of the Big Nurse as the other patients joined his

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