Interior frontier versus exterior frontier in ken kesey's one flew over the cuckoo's nest

Resumo

This thesis is designed to make more intelli gible certain concepts and attitudes of American people. Ken Kesey was aware of the shortcomings of the American system and wanted to question the nation¿s myths and ideologies. The apparently real contradictions. And ambiguities presented by Kesey were a splendid way to depict the comolex personality of his time. In one flew over the Cucloo¿s nest he concentrates in the exterior forces that have affected minorities and on the problems arising from the mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness. Thus the microcosmic society of the mental hospital reflects the anomie, interior despair and alienation felt in the outside society. The central them in Bromden¿s interior growth, the full development of identity the integration of interior and exterior realities. Engaging with the uncanny aspects of the existence, thoughts and feelings. Kesey was questioning the polarity of idealism and pragmatism. Beyond the explicit or implicit political references, not only about prejudice and racism, he was raising the problem of the perception of history itself. In so doing he stopped being a national writer. He attained transnational, universal and eternal dimensions.