“The Combine” In Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one of the literary themes is the combine. The combine represents American Society in the novel. The narrator, Chief Bromden, describes the combine through out the book. He uses extended metaphors and symbolism to represent Society in the form of this combine. The combine represents American society in several ways. Society viewed by Bromden is simply a machine, a combine. This …showed first 75 words of 408 total…

…showed last 75 words of 408 total…t assimilated him into society yet. He is not a cog like everyone else; he is still human. So he can see the machine because he is not a part inside of it. The combine represents American society. It is an overwhelming machine that forces people to conform to one neat standard. This is one of the themes if not the main theme of Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.