Symbolism in Cuckoo's Nest

Religious Symbolism and Allusion in “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Ken Kesey’s novel, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, can be based upon some religious form of literary criticism. The general theme was that seemingly helpless individuals could be delivered from the vicious environment they had subjected themselves to. The deliverer can be religion itself or the object of religion such as Jesus Christ or as in the novel, Cuckoo’s …showed first 75 words of 867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 867 total…In conclusion, analyzing “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, in the form of a religious criticism allows me to think that no matter how degrading society is, one can find freedom in a Christ-like figure or through their faith or belief in a higher being. Indeed, the contributions of Jesus Christ and Randle P. McMurphy will go unnoticed by a society too concerned with itself to notice anything else, much less than the truth.