Compare the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest and the movie Cool hand LUke
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Cuckoo's nest, Cool hand Luke Essay
The novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is in many ways similar to the movie "Cool Hand Luke" with common main characters. The main characters, Randle McMurphy, in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Luke, in "Cool Hand Luke," are both presumed to be great leaders and they have many followers. In both stories, McMurphy and Luke have men that look up to them and treat them as if there are better than the rest of the men. With a few small feats that Luke and McMurphy are able to complete, the other men treat them as gods. The other men think that these men are more than human. This is an ongoing theme in both the movie and the novel that McMurphy and Luke are Christ like figures and that they are better than the men. This is not true because both of them fail the men and use the men to gain power and wealth for themselves. Although McMurphy and Luke are viewed as the great leaders in reality they aren't and they use the men. Also, they eventually crumble under all the pressure that comes along with being a leader and in contrast shows that they are just men and that they are not a higher being like presumed to be.
In One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, McMurphy who is thought to be an extraordinary person is only a human, and a selfish human at that...