Man and (Dale Wasserman's) "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

When the original version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was presented to the public, the author noted that Cuckoo's Nest was meant as a story of a "Christian character who puts his life on the line for the down-trodden (Porter 23)." However, this story, as seen in the reformatted play by Dale Wasserman, has taken on much more meaning than possibly intended, and actually presents very insightful views about the society the play was …

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