Invisible Power and a Flight for Self-Establishment: Focused on Naked Lunch & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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This study analyzes William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) and Ken Elton Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) using the analysis framework of Foucault’s power discourse and the concepts of “lines of flight,” “a line of molecular or supple segmentation,” and “molar or rigid line of segmentarity” that were introduced in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. As the narrative of Naked Lunch is composed of the confessions of a drug addict, William Lee, and that of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is voiced by Bromden, who suffers from paranoia symptoms due to electrical shocks and drugs, these two works are “chaotic in structure, disorderly in style, and fragmented in imagery” (Peterson 79). But these two novels are not pointless. These two novels present the mechanism of ruling power, a flight for self-establishment, and the restoration of one’s lost identity. They hold scathing criticism of institutional violence that wields influence deeply over personal life. While examining the features of power that suppress individual freedom and independence, this paper explores the desire preceding power and the flight by that desire. By analyzing the presented mechanism of invisible power and the main characters, William Lee, McMurphy and Bromden’s resistance and rejection of power and on flight for independent self-awareness, this paper asserts that one of the ways of defying huge power is the expansion and reform of an individual’s consciousness and gradual changes of life through that change.
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This study analyzes William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) and Ken Elton Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) using the analysis framework of Foucault’s power discourse and the concepts of “lines of flight,” “a line of molecular or supple segmentation,” and “molar or rigid line of segmentarity” that were introduced in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. As the narrative of Naked Lunch is composed of the confessions of a drug addict, William Lee, and that of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is voiced by Bromden, who suffers from paranoia symptoms due to electrical shocks and drugs, these two works are “chaotic in structure, disorderly in style, and fragmented in imagery” (Peterson 79). But these two novels are not pointless. These two novels present the mechanism of ruling power, a flight for self-establishment, and the restoration of one’s lost identity. They hold scathing criticism of institutional violence that wields influence deeply over personal life. While examining the features of power that suppress individual freedom and independence, this paper explores the desire preceding power and the flight by that desire. By analyzing the presented mechanism of invisible power and the main characters, William Lee, McMurphy and Bromden’s resistance and rejection of power and on flight for independent self-awareness, this paper asserts that one of the ways of defying huge power is the expansion and reform of an individual’s consciousness and gradual changes of life through that change.
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