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Compare the ways in which psychiatric institutions and mental illness are presented in Barker's 'Regeneration' and Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'.
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Compare the ways in which psychiatric institutions and mental illness are presented in Barker's 'Regeneration' and Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' The novels 'Regeneration' by Pat Barker and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey are both centred on events that take place within psychiatric institutions. The protagonist of 'Regeneration' is Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier protesting against war who is sent to Craiglockhart psychiatric institution for assessment because of his views. In comparison, 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' focuses predominantly on Randle McMurphy, a character who seems to have contrived to get himself admitted to a mental hospital in Oregon to escape the rigours and hardships of prison life. An immediate similarity between both these characters is that neither Sassoon nor McMurphy appears to be truly insane, and consequently one might say that they do not belong in a mental hospital. In 'Regeneration' Sassoon presents the British...
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