What is the novel saying about the role of women?
The novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, is saying that women are like castrators. Women are portrayed in the novel as powerful, dominating, emasculating and disabling. The novel looks at the power women have over men. These viewpoints are illustrated through the character Nurse Ratched and the control she has over the male characters and through some patients and their personal experiences with the women in their lives.
Nurse Ratched is the head nurse of the mental institution in which the story is set. …
