The Social Identity Crisis in Ken kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962).

Abstract

The present study handles the issue of identity in the Post-modern novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest(1962).It goes for exploring the real's character identity crisis as for Erik Erikson's perspectives and inspecting the legitimacy of his theory of identity in dissecting a fictional character. It additionally seeks after to exhibit that Kesey frequently utilizes a few certainties of psychoanalysis that are identified with the human mind to frame the identity of his anecdotal character (Bromden).The primary target of this examination is to demonstrate the significance of analysis as a literary criticism hypothesis and its essentialness when scrutinizing any given scholarly generation, since it gives per-users the suggestions that are pressed with mental based comprehension. This work is threefold: the main section will be a general and a hypothetical system of the construction of social identity, the second part manages trauma, Schizophrenia, Paranoia as the postmodern identity crisis, and the third section is devoted to investigate the real character's identity confusion in One Flew Over -The Cuckoo's Nest