问答题
Read the following passage. Write an essay discussing the passage. Your essay should include such elements as its social significance, the setting, plot, characters, theme, and writing technique.One Flew over the Cuckoo"s Nest (Ken Kesey) I know how they work it, the fog machine. We had a whole platoon used to operate fog machines around airfields overseas. Whenever intelligence figured there might be a bombing attack, or if the generals had something secret they wanted to pull—out of sight, hid so good that even the spies on the base couldn"t see what went on they fogged the field.It"s a simple rig: you got an ordinary compressor sucks sate out of one tank and a special oil out of another tank, and compresses them together, and from the black stem at the end of the machine blooms a white cloud of fog that can cover a whole airfield in ninety seconds.The first thing I saw when I landed in Europe was the fog those machines make. There were some interceptors close after our transport, and soon as it hit ground the fog crew started up the machines. We could look out the transport"s round, scratched windows and watch jeeps draw the machines up close to the plane and watch the fog boil out till it rolled across the field and stuck against the windows like we cotton.
【正确答案】正确答案：One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The story is based largely on Kesey"s experiences with mental patients. Narrated by the gigantic but docile half-Indian "Chief Bromden, who has pretended to be a deaf-mute for several years, the story focuses on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, a happy-go-lucky transferee from a prison work farm to a mental hospital. The main action of the novel is about McMurphy"s confrontation with the strict rule of Big Nurse Ratched. In the story, McMurphy represents sexuality, freedom, and self-determination—characteristics that clash with the oppressed ward, which is controlled by Nurse Ratched. In the end, McMurphy"s self-sacrifice on behalf of his ward-mates echoes Christ"s sacrifice of himself on the cross to redeem humankind. McMurphy"s actions frequently parallel Christ"s actions in the Gospels. In order to intend the effect, the author employs metaphor and symbolization, which makes the novels possible for the readers to consider the connotation. The author also borrows the visual and thematic elements of American animated cartoons to depict the childlike world of Bromden. Ironically, the latter is not but the narrator who gives episodes of the story cartoon imagery, as is revealed in the given excerpt. The novel, first published in 1962, gained positive reviews from critics. It is considered to be a transitional work from the Beatniks of the late 1950s, who expressed their dissatisfaction with the conformist society through various techniques of arts, to the Hippies of 1960s, who rebelled by means of promiscuity and drug use.