One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Book • 1963 • Drama
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Does a cat die?
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Nothing shown or dwelled upon too much, but there's a brief moment where an unnamed character confesses to killing his pet cat.
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Is there excessive gore?
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A hallucination/nightmare that's at one point in the story involves a man being cut open, but the only thing inside of him is machinery.
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Abuse
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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McMurphy strangles Ratched and tears her clothes off. It is treated as a good thing.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Nurse Ratched gaslights and controls the patients.
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Animal Death
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They go fishing, but that's about it.
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Animal Distress
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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drugs and pills are used throughout the novel as this is a book based on a 1963 mental institution
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Is someone restrained?
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Given that this book takes place in a mental institution in the 50s-60s, yeah, the patients tend to be restrained by orderlies in several cases.
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Cheswick drowns, Billy slits his throat, and McMurphy is suffocated.
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Is there a shower scene?
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The staff makes the patients take a shower after their fishing trip, and a fight breaks out.
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Law Enforcement
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Nearly the whole book takes place in a mental institution, and a very abusive one at that.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Electroconvulsive therapy is repeatedly mentioned, and performed at one point in the book.
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Mental Health
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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the book is from the perspective of a person with paranoid-schizophrenia, so things are slightly skewed
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Very few of the characters' mental illnesses are ever explicitly specified, but several show some signs of PTSD and other trauma.
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Neck
Does someone struggle to breathe?
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(Spoiler) McMurphy attacks Ratched by strangling her in the climax of the story; she survives, but is left seriously injured. Later, Chief sees that McMurphy has been lobotomized and left with severe brain damage, and uses a pillow to suffocate him to end his suffering.
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Is someone choked?
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McMurphy strangles Ratched near the end of the book.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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"Queer" is used in a somewhat derogatory way at one point. A character who is very strongly implied to be gay is ridiculed/stereotyped a bit as well, but I don't remember any actual slurs being used towards him.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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It's about an old-fashioned mental hospital, so... yeah, quite a bit.
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Race
Are there usages of the n-word?
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McMurphy calls an orderly the n-word while trying to engage in a fight with him.
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Self Harm
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Billy cuts his throat after Ratched threatens to tell his mother that he slept with a prostitute.
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Implied that Billy does, judging by the mentioning of cigar burns and razor blade marks on his hands/arms.
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Sexual Assault
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McMurphy states that he was charged with statutory rape of a 15-year-old. Near the beginning, Bromden states that one of the hospital workers' mother was raped. There are implications that the hospital workers rape the ward members in the showers.
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Is there pedophilia?
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McMurphy states that he was charged with statutory rape of a 15-year-old.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Billy is implied to cut himself and dies by slitting his throat.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Sefelt and Frederickson are both epileptic, and Sefelt has at least two seizures over the course of the book.
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