One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Character Change

Change isn't always positive, but it also isn't always negative. However, change can be so many things because it is never clearly defined to suit any one person. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there is one certain character that shows a dramatic change in the novel. He shows that fear can be masted into becoming someone's ally in a time of darkness. Chief is the one who is able to prove that "change", no matter what it is, can help anyone out when you need to become strong. The "fog", as explained in the novel, is ultimately the tangible exposure to fear. When Chief is able to overcome this fog, he regains his true self, as a leader, a hero, and as someone who can escape the nightmare of the hospital.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Women

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.  If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes."  They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."  ~Clare Boothe Luce

Women have always been oppressed through out history. Even today, women are expected to fail. That's why women work ten times harder to make sure that they do not fail. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the person in power is Nurse Rachet. Though she abuses her power, she tries to not fail as a nurse. Cuckoo's Nest takes women's role into a new light. Usually women are portrayed as stupid, soft, and beautiful. However, not every women is like that. Is is stereotypical for women to be portrayed as this? Nurse Rachet is a perfect example that women can try hard, and succeed without falling into a stereotypical aspect of what women are considered. 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - The Fog

The world is filled with people who try to hard to suppress others through fear. But what does fear do to people? Why is it that in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the nurse able to use fear to make the others in the ward conform into what she wants. However, it isn't just her that allows fear to drive the ward, but also this "fog" that the Chief talks about. The fog isn't something that you can see, hear, of feel, but rather the symbol of the fear that is controlling everyone. Chief needs the fear to be more tangible, that way, it makes more sense for the mind of a mental patient.

Waiting for Godot Video

In Waiting for Godot, the movie, you automatically see how the set is set up. It's very bleak, and dreary. Most of the color is gray, black, and white, and you see very little emotion excepts for the loss of hope. You get a sense of emptiness and also the hope that Godot will show up. Other than a few rocks around the ground, there isn't much to the set; however, the director makes sure that the tree is shown in every scene. He also makes sure that the angles are shown to what is seen by the characters and what they are doing. The director wants to make sure that you are aware of what's going on at all times, while still being able to understand the characters individually. The characters are ugly, and you can tell by their clothing that they are homeless or close to homeless. They've really given up all hope. The first scene is depressing, it's like the world had ended and they are waiting for a hero to come and save them. They are all simply suffering.

Waiting For Godot

Waiting for Godot raised a question for me, who is Godot? I believe that Godot is a form of God. He is the one that everyone is waiting for, but no one sees or hears from. This is a simple way of showing how God is waited by everyone and he doesn't wait on anyone else. There have been many books and forms of literature where someone is writing, or talking to someone who isn't there; just waiting for them. In the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie, the main character is writing to an unknown person, but he is hoping to hear from that person. In a way, the unknown is god, that people want to have a sense of comfort and that they don't want to be alone. Which makes sense, people do not want to feel alone in such a giant world. That's who I feel Godot is. He is "god", the one they wait for just to get some peace.

The Stranger Blog Response 3

From what I understand of The Stranger, I believe that Camus is trying to show the world how an existentialist lives. Meursualt's life is a constant struggle to just live day by day, yet we as humans plan for tomorrow and still ponder about the past by reflecting on memories. I believe that the discussion question that plays the most part in The Stranger is, "Life is a series of choices, creating stress." You see that no matter what, Meursault has a hard time deciding what to do and blames it on the sun. Especially when he chooses if he should kill the Arab or not, he starts feeling uncomfortable and emotionally and physically emotionally stressed. He has a hard time deciding what to do, and once he decides, he starts being an existentialist, and that he doesn't care from that point on. While he is in the decision making process, he can't figure out what to do and so he blames it on the sun and how it affects him. That's why this question relates so much to the novel. You see a way that Camus related his character to everyday people.

The Stranger Blog Response 2

In The Stranger, you never really know the underlining truth in the narrator's character. He doesn't know how to react because in "recent years, [he] lost the habit of noting [his] feelings, and hardly knew what to answer." (page  41, on PDF file) Since he doesn't notice his feelings, you don't know how he thinks and he himself doesn't even know how to relate to others or to react to the world. Within this quote, you can also see that the narrator is completely disconnected with himself. He cannot connect with the world and society because he cannot connect with himself. I believe that if it he didn't kill the Arab, then he would have eventually blown up because no one can really live in the world without being connect with themselves.