Chief Bromden
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Chief Bromden is the schizophrenic, half-Native American patient who narrates Ken Kesey’s novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," offering a surreal, paranoid perspective on life inside a psychiatric hospital.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ narrator ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| actualAbility |
can hear
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can speak ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975 film)
NERFINISHED
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stage adaptations of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ⓘ |
| alias | Chief Broom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
NERFINISHED
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nurse Ratched
NERFINISHED
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Randle P. McMurphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hallucination-prone
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introverted ⓘ observant ⓘ paranoid ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ken Kesey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Native American
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half-Native American ⓘ |
| familyBackground |
son of Chief Tee Ah Millatoona
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son of a Native American chief ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| language | English (narration) ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| mentalHealthCondition | schizophrenia ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
hallucinatory
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paranoid perspective ⓘ surreal ⓘ |
| notableAction | escapes from the psychiatric hospital ⓘ |
| occupation | patient ⓘ |
| perceivedAs | deaf and mute ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Will Sampson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Oregon psychiatric hospital
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psychiatric hospital ⓘ |
| symbolism |
marginalized Indigenous perspective
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resistance to institutional control ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
Native American identity
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individual vs institution ⓘ oppression and control ⓘ sanity and insanity ⓘ |
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