One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Analysis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was published in the early 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement and during a controversial movement towards deinstitutionalization. There were concerns with the rights of institutionalized patients which brought up issues of free expression and conformity, the premises of the book revolved greatly around these issues. In addition, the approach to how psychology and psychology were being viewed were beginning to change. Furthermore, the book reflects the aftermath of the situations that many veterans found themselves in when they returned home from the Vietnam War. Veterans who returned from the war did not have any support, the veterans were traumatized by the incredibly gruesome things that they saw; however, they were expected to be the same person they were before they were involved in the war. However, the veterans were changed and they were misunderstood when they returned home. Many veterans were admitted and isolated in mental institutions as they were no longer considered socially acceptable because their
In the 1970s many public schools in Ohio, Maine, New York, Idaho, and Oklahoma were required to ban the book from their required reading list after receiving numerous complaints. In the 1980s, several schools in New Hampshire and Washington were also challenged and brought to the school board, but the attempt unsuccessful in banning the book. The latest challenge was in 2000, parents with children in a California public school district filed complaints with the school board, calling the book “garbage”, however, the department of education believed that the book was a great learning resource and were not required to ban the book. The negativity stemmed from the racist remarks, violence, sexual remarks, unsavory themes, and foul language. (L.A. Times) (ALA,