One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry and a tribute to individualistic principles.

War hero Chief Bromden narrates the Novel. Bromden is a large half-Native American patient at the psychiatric hospital, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, after seeing his father, a Native American chieftain, humiliated at the hands of the U.S. government and his white wife. Bromden's narrative follows the power struggle between the patients and the hospital staff in tandem with the power dynamics of consumer society in America.

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