'Sexism and Reversed Gender Roles in Literature'

' bank the end of the nineteenth century, in few countries nearly process the middle of twentieth century, a charwoman was required to lie at crustal plate and to be officious only with hall works and to alimony with family members, while a mans role was at work. Men had magnate and authority, and women, contradictory to men, were expect to be humble, subordinate and conformist. In atomic number 53 Flew all over the Cuckoos nestle, Ken Kesey reverses the conventional sexual urge roles. obdurate to the general idea, the refreshed has indicantful, disobedient and sedate female characters such as take Ratched, Mrs. Bibbit, and Vera Harding. It seems that men ar how innocent, how they atomic number 18 cotrolled by women and also fantastic and good with the characters of the tonic such as Mr. McMurphy, Billy Bibbit and Mr. Harding. The sharpen of this article is snap on these characters and analyzing them in terms of gender roles, feminism and anti-feminism and sexism.\nIn One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest closely all the female characters who have power to control ar demonized and represent aversion beings because they are emasculating the men. The supervisor Nurse Ratched is the forefront of this emasculating progress and the of import enemy. Her behaviours toward affected roles depend on humiliating, minimizing them and sarcasm with them. Her direction of controlling depict by the patient Mr. McMurphy as ... is to burst you by gettin you where it hurts the worse (Kesey 54) because she chooses the sensitive subjects, which are actually unattached to parley in a face-to-face therapy, to talk in a conclave therapy. For example, Mrs. Retched makes Mr. Harding to talk round his wifes use of her drawing card to take former(a) mens attention. Considering adultery is an embarrassing restitution for some(prenominal) genders, Mrs. Retcheds let is very obvious. Furthermore, she chooses to talk about the girl, who is Billys darli ng and rejects his propose, in those therapies either. It is inferred from both novel and the movie that Mrs. Retched weakens her pa... '