Literary Analysis of "The Chocolate War" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Literary Analysis

The two literary works, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Chocolate War, both contain examples of the impact of society on a person’s life. If you try to go and do you own thing in life that is different from society, society will always try to pull you back. And no matter how much you fight, you are always against the odds of over powering society.

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched personifies society. With her control over the “fog” she can basically control the actions of all the patients at the psychiatric ward. “…she is powerful like the establishment, and like the government, she makes and enforces the rules” (One). She is referring to Nurse Ratched. At one point, R. P. McMurphy, the newest patient at the psychiatric ward, started to get the upper hand on Nurse Ratched. But soon she reasserted her power by taking away the tub room privilege where the men had been holding their card games. This leads to the i...