The Collapse of Grand Narratives in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

This book examines how One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an iconoclastic book. The demise of symbols is portrayed through the collapse of grand narratives. These grand narratives are despotic monolithic discourses that impose a single perspective on the world. A world that kesey dimms as further dehumanized through extensive appeal to technological progress and postbellum scepticism. This postmodern age is best described by Lyotrad's contention that postmodernism is defined by “incredulity towards grand narratives”. In this book, Canonic literature, reason, and religion sway under the rising influence of psychedelic fiction, madness and pantheism ushering a new era of counterculture in the mist of crippling conformity.