Synthesis Assignment!!

The novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” shares various views with the poem “The Wall” by Pink Floyd as both pieces of literature touch upon the negativity of human manipulation. The novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” states that insanity is a label placed upon the manipulated people of society. As the ward is full of volunteer psychotics who have been brainwashed into thinking they need daily doses of medication and personalized treatment just to coalesce into the public eye of society. The volunteers attend the ward’s practices like kids attend school it’s a bond that almost has a religious sense of duty and this life style is not accumulating a cure for the insanity. Human nature bestowed society with the power to judge and label people insane just as the Ward was bestowed with the power to ensure that the insane stay deranged as intended. It is a cycle of society oppressing individuality. The school in the poem “The Wall” shows this cynical cycle in the youth of the poem but the children are refuting and shouting out “We don’t need no thought control” and revealing that unlike the ward patients the youth know they are being oppressed by the school. The youth have an anonymous supporter who tells the teachers to leave the kids alone and the youth stand united in saying that they don’t need this breed of education. This breed of education was almost successfully initiated once by an infamous leader of Germany, Hitler. Hitler created the Hitler Youth which was an organization of young German boys brainwashed into thinking Hitler’s methods were the only methods. The Hitler Youth was dismantled as soon as he was out of power but to dismantle the method of manipulation in society is merely unheard of because you would have to manipulate to people to get the man power to stop it, thus creating another cynical cycle.