RETHINKING McMURPHY'S IDENTITY IN KEN KESEY'S ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

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  • Luiz Manoel da Silva Oliveira UFRJ

Abstract

Randolph Patrick McMurphy's several functions in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (translated into Portuguese as Um Estranho no Ninho ) offer, so to speak, a large range of possibilities of literary interpretations, on account of the complexity of the decade in which the story takes place rather than the complexity of the character himself, even though one must acknowledge that he is not a flat character at all. I mean, McMurphy's actions and importance within the novel increase and develop in direct proportion to the growth of the antagonic social forces against which he is going to fight and that ultimately reflect similar forces oppressing millions of subjugated Americans in the fierce and roaring actuality of the 1960's.

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