1. Be creative - come with your own idea. 2. Man vs. Society - McMurphy vs. Hospital. 3. McMurphy as a Christ figure - sacrificed for the common good. He pumps life/spirit into the men. 4. McMurphy the Manipulator (i.e. "What's in it for me?") vs. McMurphy the Christ figure (i.e. charitably/altruistically sacrificing himself.) 5. Big Nurse emasculates and controls patients through insinuation: drugs, EST, and lobotomy. 6. The Combine - How it has made the patients conform; Society, the Big Nurse, and the hospital are all parts of the combine. 7. Playing it safe vs. going for it. 8. The Combine - How it has made the patients conform; Society, the Big Nurse, and the hospital are all parts of the combine. 9. Kesey's use of women - What do they all stand for? Big Nurse, Bibbits' Mother, Harding's Wife, Bromden's Mother, Prostitutes, Nurse Flynn, Japanese Nurse. 10. Development of masculine/feminine balance. Aggressive/sensitive, active/passive, motivating/nurturing. 11. Men have all withdrawn - from society and each other. 12. Reaching out for relationships - as an identity, companionship, sense of purpose. 13. Being worn out, worn down by guilt, shame, fear, hurt, dissapointment - giving up - copping out - selling out. 14. Metaphoric language - electronic - machine imagery for society and the combine. 15. Mirrors - trapped self - inside person vs. outside person. 16. Truth even if it didn't happen - myth - archetype - universal experience - truth of feelings. 17. What is a man? Manhood? What is a woman? Womanhood? What is an adult? Adulthood? 18. Laughter. 19. Medical terms - psychotic, neurotic, psychopath. 20. Kesey - refer to at least 3 articles on Cuckoo's Nest or other works by Kesey.