HELP!! with a project on the 1960s and how ken kesey's book one flew over the cuckoos nest affected it?

Question

Political Analysts (conservative and liberal points of view): You need form a group with two factions--a conservative faction and a liberal faction--then examine the politics of the time and the novel. You need to present a conservative point of view and a liberal point of view of the 1960's, Ken Kesey and the novel. Your key inquiry tools are the listing of important issues of the times, where the sides stand on the issues and why?

is what i'm supposed to do in a few powerpoint pages, I have absolutely no idea what the heck to put in there, i keep trying to google liberal and conservative stances during the 1960s as well as issues and i keep getting things on current events or stuff that happened 5 years ago, and i'ms tilln ot even sure whati 'm supposed to do, my teacher keeps ranting on how amazing the 60s were and how much in love she was with the time that changed everything she says and that we should all appreciate it like she does, I have no idea what's shes talking about...

Answer 1

This review touches on the consequences:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/kesey.html

This one discusses the themes in much more detail:

http://www.sparknotes.com/film/cuckoo/themes.html

If this or another answer here proves helpful in your research, you can encourage good answers by choosing one answer as the "best answer."

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

It gave a look into the inhumane treatment of mental hospitals . They were locked up like animals with little or NO education or guidance . They had little or no psychiatric care by the doctors and were just medicated instead of taught to go out and be a productive part of society . Plus no more shock treatments or lobotomies were given

Answer 3

nicely i'm no genius or something, yet as cuckoo is a slang observe for mad, cuckoos nest is a psychological domicile, one flying over it would propose the guy who have been given faraway from the domicile, that ought to consult from numerous of the characters.