McMurphy is Not a Christ Figure in Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoo

McMurphy isn't a Christ Figure in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest   â â Literary fiction is covered with references to Christianity. It is clearly an enormous and persuasive power in the western world so it is not really astounding that a novel, for example, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is so addressing of our general public and virtues, ought to be so brimming with references what exactly is seemingly the premise of these qualities. What the inquiry pose, nonetheless, is if the character of McMurphy is depicted as a Christ figure. A Christ figure being an impression of the New Testament savior inside the characters activities, convictions and impact on everyone around him. The figure will at that point reclaim his adherents, lead them to salvation, be martyred and restored.  The likenesses are productive in their quality in specific pieces of the novel, the very setting of the two stories shows similitudes, both are managing a persecuted factor that is liberated by an untouchable who instructs and challenges the framework where the mistreated are gotten.  The main mention to the New Testament comes when the boss acquaints the peruser with the patient Ellis. Ellis' arms our extended in the posture of torturous killing, a gesture brought about by numerous medicines on the Electro-Shock Therapy(EST) table, a represent that McMurphy later embraces when he gets the treatment. Ellis likewise tells Billy Bibbitt before the angling outing to be ' a fisher of men' one of Christ's guidelines to his supporters. The motivation behind the character is by all accounts an acquaintance for the peruser with this subject and to have it presented so at an early stage the two features the all inclusive nature of the battle that McMurphy and the patients face and furthermore permits the peruser to be ... ...erely suggests Christ.  Works Cited Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Toronto, Ontario Canada: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1962. Kunz, Don. Symbolization in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A Casebook on Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ed. George J. Searles. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1989. Pratt, John Clark. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: The Viking Press. 1973. Semino, Elena, and Swindlehurst, Kate. Illustration and Mind Style in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Northern Light (web based posting) Spring 1996. <www.northernlight.com/cgi-canister/pdserv?cbecid=6619970923010053874&ho=monsoon&po=508&cb=0> Obscure Author. Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. (web based posting) <http:www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/kesey.html> Â