One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  

by Ken Kesey

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  1. Shmooping the 1960s
    Our discussion of the culture of the 1960s provides essential historical background for understanding the counterculture and anti-authoritarianism of the generation that the novel helped kick off.

  2. Postwar Suburbia
    It's helpful also to give historical context of the kind of repression and conformity that Kesey was rebelling against.