Sexism and Reversed Gender Roles in Literature

Till the end of the nineteenth century, in some countries almost till the middle of twentieth century, a woman was needful to stay at base of operations and to be busy just now with house works and to dread with family members, while a mans bureau was at work. Men had world-beater and authority, and wo workforce, contradictory to men, were expected to be humble, subservient and conformist. In virtuoso Flew everywhere the Cuckoos Nest, ken Kesey reverses the stereotypical gender roles. perverse to the general idea, the novel has magnateful, mutinous and dangerous female characters much(prenominal) as Nurse Ratched, Mrs. Bibbit, and Vera Harding. It seems that men argon how innocent, how they are cotrolled by women and also heroic and well-behaved with the characters of the novel such as Mr. McMurphy, Billy Bibbit and Mr. Harding. The aim of this article is focusing on these characters and analyzing them in terms of gender roles, feminist movement and anti-feminism and sexism.\nIn One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest almost solely the female characters who have power to control are demonized and found evil beings because they are emasculating the men. The supervisor Nurse Ratched is the head of this emasculating hop on and the main enemy. Her behaviours toward long-sufferings depend on humiliating, minimizing them and sarcasm with them. Her way of autocratic described by the patient Mr. McMurphy as ... is to weaken you by gettin you where it hurts the worse (Kesey 54) because she chooses the sensitive subjects, which are actually available to piffle in a person-to-person therapy, to guggle in a group therapy. For example, Mrs. Retched makes Mr. Harding to talk virtually his wifes use of her attractiveness to come other mens attention. Considering fornication is an embarrassing issue for both genders, Mrs. Retcheds aim is very obvious. Furthermore, she chooses to talk about the girl, who is Billys beloved and rejects his propose, in those ther apies either. It is inferred from both novel and the moving picture that Mrs. Retched weakens her pa...