One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)

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American novel novel

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) is Ken Kesey's 1962 classic American novel set in a psychiatric hospital, exploring themes of individuality, institutional control, and rebellion through the conflict between patient Randle McMurphy and the authoritarian Nurse Ratched.

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Label	Occurrences
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) canonical	2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962 novel)	1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	1
novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey	1
novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American novel ⓘ novel ⓘ
adaptedInto	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ⓘ surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 film) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play) ⓘ
antagonist	Nurse Ratched ⓘ
author	Ken Kesey ⓘ
centralConflict	Randle McMurphy vs. Nurse Ratched ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat	hardcover ⓘ
genre	literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ social commentary ⓘ
hasCharacter	Billy Bibbit ⓘ Dale Harding ⓘ Doctor Spivey ⓘ The Black Orderlies ⓘ
hasMotif	fog ⓘ machinery and the Combine ⓘ
hasSymbol	electroshock therapy ⓘ lobotomy ⓘ the control panel ⓘ
influencedBy	Ken Kesey's experiences in a veterans hospital ⓘ Ken Kesey's participation in government drug experiments ⓘ
literaryMovement	counterculture literature ⓘ
literarySignificance	considered a classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ
mainCharacter	Nurse Ratched ⓘ Randle Patrick McMurphy ⓘ
narrativePerspective	unreliable narrator ⓘ
narrativeStyle	first-person narration ⓘ
narrator	Chief Bromden ⓘ
notableFor	critique of psychiatric institutions ⓘ portrayal of authoritarian power structures ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
protagonist	Randle Patrick McMurphy ⓘ
publicationYear	1962 ⓘ
publisher	The Viking Press ⓘ surface form: Viking Press
setIn	Oregon ⓘ
setting	psychiatric hospital ⓘ
theme	conformity vs. freedom ⓘ dehumanization ⓘ individuality ⓘ institutional control ⓘ mental illness ⓘ power and authority ⓘ rebellion ⓘ
timePeriod	1950s ⓘ
titleOrigin	nursery rhyme line "One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest" ⓘ
toldFromPerspectiveOf	Chief Bromden ⓘ

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest → basedOn → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

Christopher Lloyd → notableWork → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey → notableWork → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Randle Patrick McMurphy → appearsIn → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Randle Patrick McMurphy → appearsIn → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

Randle Patrick McMurphy → firstAppearance → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962 novel)

Nurse Ratched → fictionalUniverse → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nurse Ratched → firstAppearance → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

Wilmer C. Butler → notableWork → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lawrence Hauben → basedOn → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) ⓘ

this entity surface form: novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey