A good writer knows how to carefully transmit his beliefs throughout his writing. The famous american novelist Ken Kesey knew how to do so. In his novel One Flew Over The Kuckoo’s Nest, he was able to criticize his own society with subtility and hand out an interesting message to his readers. His book got a lot of attention and avid filmmakers made a movie with it, few years after it was published. Sadly, it was said Ken Kesey did not agree with the screen adaptation. The movie One Flew Over The Kuckoo’s Nest was a bad adaptation of the novel, because there were many key elements of the original story missing or wrongly interpreted. In fact, the literary aspects that defined the similarities and differences between the two creations were a change of protagonist, the characters and the important themes portrayed.
First of all, the main character differed from the novel to the movie and this important change transformed…show more content… Based on the book, Miss Ratched was a matriarchal empowering figure and McMurphy was described as a redhead with many tattoos. Also, Taber was a patient who was released in the beginning of the book. His release introduced the notion of what was sanity. However, in the movie Nurse Ratched was more calm and did not seem to have a stranglehold on all the hospital’s personel. For example, doctor Spivey was not as opressed by her than in the novel. Besides, McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson) did not fit at all the physical description of the book. Sadly, the character of Taber was not even in the movie. Other characters involved in decisive events and similarly impersonated in both works were Cheswick, Harding, Bromden, Bibbit and Martini. Of course, most of the critical cast was present, but the fact that some of them seemed different from their initial description disrupted the understanding of some concepts such as
