The Manichean world of madness : a reading of Kesey's one flew over the Cuckoo's nest and Miri's, Ayam al asal wa al junoun (Days of Honey and Madness)‎

Abstract EN

The researcher has chosen two novels one written in 1962 (cuckoo s nest)& the second written in 1982.

In the thesis he attempts to compare between two different views of madness ,first through becking his arguments with a great Bilk of up to –date philosophical ,sociological ,literary ,works, like Foucault ,lupack ,Shakespeare and Cervantes .

In some societies ,madness was consisdred as a work of the deire and and unstable persons as very dangerous ,hence imprisoned in solitary areas ,rooms or dungeons.

In the novels under study here he showns that madness was sometimes pretended to give vent to their Revolutionary ideas and ego unpunished ,At other times they were treated by electric shocks which damaged their brains – used as medicine but it was a means of torture to stop and Silence their voices.