Cuckoo's Nest Masculinity
One of the most important things to a man is feeling that he has a sense of power, especially in any relationship with a woman. Without this feeling of masculinity a man may feel weak and powerless. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the author Ken Kesey expresses this in the relationships between Billy Bibbit and his mother, Dale Harding and his wife Vera Harding, and Chief Bromden’s father and mother. Kesey also proves this through the characterNurse Ratched. The sense of being a true man, being dependent and having a lot of power is what truly gives a man a life. The reader can see Kesey convey this in the downfalls of each man who lost his masculinity to a woman. Dale Harding is an intelligent, educated and effeminate man. Harding