谁飞越了疯人院？——《飞越疯人院》福柯式解读.docx

Introduction
h Elton Kesey, also famous as Ken Kesey, ia a renowned author of America. He burst into the literary scene with his debut One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (hereinafter referred to as the Cuckoo’s Nest) in 1962. The novel was an immediate critical mercial ess. The film adaptation of the book by Milos Forman in 1975, bagging Academy Awards in five categories later, helps Ken gain world fame. His early experiences as a part-time aide at a psychiatric hospital and LSD testing sponsored by the government provide background information for the novel. Set in a mental ward, the story is narrated by a gigantic half-Indian “Chief” Bromden, who has pretended to be deaf and mute for many years. The story focuses on the battle of the prankster-like Randle Patrick McMurphy, who has cunningly managed to be transferred to a mental hospital so as to escape the hard work at a prison work farm. The hospital ward is run by the buttoned-up, tyrannical Nurse Ratched (or as Bromden calls her, “the Big Nurse”). McMurphy constantly antagonizes Nurse Ratched and challenges the routines. In the end, he receives a lobotomy and es an idiot. Bromden smothers his zombie-like friend with a pillow during one night and escapes the hospital to return to his tribe’s lands along the Columbia River.
Patients on the ward are worth our attention. Half are vegetables; the other half are “not any crazier than the average asshole on the street”(58). Few of them, like McMurphy, are sentenced to the ward out of crime. In the case of McMurphy, he is transferred to the ward from a work farm because of the diagnosis, ironically as he has wished, of repeated outbreaks of passion which suggest the possible symptom of psychopath, which, according to the doctor on the work farm, means he fights a lot and is “overzealous in [his] sexual relations”(44). Most e to the ward voluntarily. In short, they are not psychopathic patients at all; on the contrary, they are sane. It is just made up by Kesey to meet t