McMurphy as Christ in Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest :: One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest

McMurphy as savior in One Flew everywhere The Cuckoos Nest   In One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, McMurphy is successfully perceived as a heroic Christ introduce. Kesey uses foreshadowing and images, the fishing eluding, actions and feelings of other characters to break off this character.   Foreshadowing jots and images are used to contribute to McMurphy as a figure of Christ. In the beginning of the refreshing McMurphy is baptized with a shower onward entering the ward. The reader is also introduced to Ellis, a character who spends the entire novel in a cross set nailed against the wall, arms out, (page 20). Another clue to McMurphys developing character is presented during the electroshock therapy. McMurphy willingly lies down on a cross shaped table, ending up in the same position Ellis foreshadowed. McMurphy also asks for his crown of thorns. Before the therapy a schizophrenic patient approaches him and says I wash my hands of the whole deal, as Ponti us Pilate said to deliverer before sentencing him to death. Jesus was also friends with a prostitute named Mary, just worry McMurphy was friends with prostitutes.   The development of McMurphy as a Christ figure deepends, when he travel bys the patients on a fishing trip. McMurphy takes the twelve of us patients towards the ocean, (page 203) just like Jesus 12 disciples, to test and strengthen their faith in him and empower them. Fish cede also been an important religious Christian symbol, as the fishing trip is an important symbol of the novel. When the trip is over, the capitulum describes the sense of change that nigh of the patients had and even claims that they werent the same bunch of weak-knees from a nuthouse anymore. (Page 215). This really shows the focal point McMurphy is starting to guide and lead the patients, just as Jesus lead his disciples.   Finally the actions and feelings of the other characters successfully shows the development of McMu rphy as a Christ figure and hero. Clearly smiliarities can be drawn between McMurphy and Jesus healing. Jesus, do blind men see and mute men speak. McMurphy is the one who prompted the Chief to speak for the first time in years, when he says Thank-you. (Page 184) and eventually, McMurphy heals Chief of his deafness and dumbness.