how did " One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" when...?

Question

a: ones cant fly
b: cuckoo's dont make nests

Answer 1

i've always wondered about that

Answer 2

Its a line from that poem mentioned above that refers to the unnatural environment of the mental institution. Cuckoos don't make nests, mental patients don't choose asylums, an aberration against nature to imprison someone and tell them you are helping them. To say you're making them better while applying the mechanics of state institutionalisation to the human mind. A cuckoos nest is a unnatural environment constructed for a unnatural purpose. Ken Kesey was making the point that many of those in these places needed locking away or 'curing' just as much as cuckoos need nests. Similar kind of point being made with A Clockwork Orange

Answer 3

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest!

Answer 4

One flew east,
One flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

This was a rhyme that Chief Bromden learnt when he was a child. It's about three witches.
But the cuckoo's nest also refers to the hospital he was in, and eventually escaped from. But I'm sure you knew that.

Answer 5

The title is believed to come from a poem by Louis Untermeyer called "Rainbow in the Sky."

"Wire, briar, limber-lock

Three geese in a flock

One flew east, one flew west

And one flew over the cuckoo's nest."

The "one [that] flew east" is McMurphy, and the "one [that] flew west" is Nurse Ratched, illustrating their opposite directions and rivalry. "And one flew over the cuckoo's nest" describes Chief who was able to escape the institute of mentally ill patients. The cuckoos in this case are mental patients.

Answer 6

I'd ask round at the water-cooler for ya.... 'cept unfortunately someone
saw fit to chuck it out the window!..............
AND...... besides, I thought everyone knew cuckoos don't make nests because they live in clocks!!!!!

Answer 7

the phrase could have originated from a bird.....birds can fly and he may have confused nest with the cuckoos home

Answer 8

It was a mental asylum - duh

You obviously didn't see the film or you not lived long enough to get the connection.

Answer 9

I don't know but Jack Nicholson was great in that movie!!

Answer 10

well think about this they where all there of their own choice except jacks character...... would you chose to stay in an asylum....? watch the film dah

Answer 11

That is the whole point