One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
How might the story of McMurphy be understood as a religious metaphor?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey
McMurphy is different from the other patients. Really he has nothing wrong with him. He is clever and doesn't back down to authority. He is also a leader of sorts, a Christ-figure trying to save the patients from the system society has put them under. In the end he sacrifices himself.