One Flew Over A Cuckoos Nest And Girl Interrupted...

In this world, there are two sides to everything. Whether it may be a message, a film or a novel, each platform of literature has two different windows. The first being the depiction of the author and the second being the interpretation of the audience. This concept is evident within both works this essay seeks to explore. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest, a charismatic criminal, Randle P. McMurphy is admitted to a state asylum due to his will of serving out of prison sentence in a mental hospital rather than the penitentiary. McMurphy brings in the outside world to the admitted patients after being legally declared insane through a condensed interview with a psychiatrist. He symbolizes freedom, life and the power of an†¦show more content†¦Oregon State Hospital in One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest was built using the Kirkbride Plan was its foundation. This meant the patients were to be treated with a high level of ethical respect, opposed to the treatment patients received in the book. The question that now arises is, just how realistic is the novel when it comes to the general rules, layout, and procedures in a mental hospital? â€Å"Both the book and the movie are insightful views into societal problems such as stereotypes about the people who have mental disorders. But the film is largely out of date in terms of depicting hospital staff as manipulative or evil. From what I saw when I worked in a similar institution, mental hospitals are a calm, healing environments—as they should be† (Wind Goodfriend, 2012). Wind Goodfriend, a Ph. D in social psychology, claims One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest inaccurately displays the workings of the institution in society today. Additionally, a 1983 study involving 146 university students found considerable negative changes in attitude towards people with mental health problems among those who had seen the film (Jon Swaine, 2011). One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest evidently portrays authoritarian figures out of their roles as employees in a mental institution, rather they are showcased as manipulative and oppressive individuals. One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest displays the institutional processes and the human mind as