A Comparison of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Dead...

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Vs. Dead Poets Society Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost) In todays world there is no tolerance for the individual thinker. It is not acceptable to modify or bend the rules of society. Society is civilized, and to be civilized there must be rules, regulations and policies that prevent. Individuality leads to a mess of chaos. To prevent disorder, institutions in society keep these rules strongly enforced. Man creates these institutions in order to provide convenience and stability in everyday life. Then instead of man running these institutions, the institutions begin to reverse the role of power and†¦show more content†¦In Ken Keseys novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest the patients in a mental institution are put through a restorative treatment in order to follow the line and fit into society. McMurphy, he who breaks boundaries inspires the rest of the patients to live their lives when they are slow ly giving up their struggle for life, to rebel against the authority of the Big Nurse and her undermining attempts to get them to submit to her power and rules. Uniformly disturbing the principal at Welton Academy and a group of determined parents attempt to conform the lives of their children to the ideals of society in the movie Dead Poets Society. The students follow the new ideas brought on by a teacher only to learn of the obstacles that face them. A romantic non-conformist, McMurphy and Keeting who challenge the system and its leaders in turn becoming the ultimate sacrifice, brings them to a new vision. They inspire the oppressed and give them confidence to be successful like Bromden and Todd or to reject reality and fail like Billy and Neil. Nurse Ratched is the Head Nurse in the mental hospital and uses the policy and her own authority in order to take advantage of the frail condition that the patients are in. She feeds off their pain and suffering. Nurse Ratched is often referred to as the Big Nurse;Show MoreRelatedPostmodernism in Literature5514 Words   |  23 Pagesthe possibility of meaning, and the postmodern novel is often a parody of this quest. This distrust of totalizing mechanisms extends even to the author; thus postmodern writers often celebrate chance over craft and employ metafiction to undermine the authors univocal control (the control of only one voice). The distinction between high and low culture is also attacked with the employment of pastiche, the combination of multiple cultural elements including subjects and genres not previously deemed