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The Bell Jar and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
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A comparison of the ways Sylvia Plath and Ken Kesey explore societies' notions of sanity and insanity in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest discussing the effect of societies' need for conformity upon the individual. In this essay, I plan to discuss the way Plath and Kesey use insanity as a device in their novels One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and The Bell Jar to rebel against society and it's expectations upon the individual. Both novels have a central character, which is put into a mental institution, to be re-educated to the conformity of their society. The Bell Jar is set in the U.S.A. in 1953. In this period, Yale, the university Buddy Willard attended was a male only college. Even though is it post - world war 2, it was still a time of female repression as in the fact that...
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