Indeed, beat philosophy in the novel reveals that Kerouac drew his version of beatnik culture from his life experiences, as well as the colour and rhythm of the people that he met on his path of life. Kerouac can be celebrated for succeeding in representing the reality of the 1960s American cultures in a very well-explained fictional manner. While the white Americans viewed life from the perspective of material wealth, Kerouac uses his characters to portray an emerging generation that looked at life differently, the Beatnik generation (99)ices.

Through the choice of his characters, Kerouac has described a generation that has successfully conversations between characters Dean and Carlo Marx. In a show of diversion from the normal society, in what the writer uses to portray his version of the beat generation, Kerouac has made his main characters, Dean and Sal divert from the norms of the society. Contrary to the beliefs among the average whites about a well-paying job and the ability to bring up a family in the suburbs, Kerouac depicts the beat generation as one that is just concerned with the joys of life. Indeed, Kerouac’s version of the beat generation sees the average Americans as slaves of their cultural system. Indeed, throughout the novel, Kerouac describes his main beatnik models as being “tremendously excited with life” (Kerouac 23). Even in the setting, the author depicts the life of the beatniks as different from the average Americans. For example, the beatniks are associated with urban jungles and small, sleepy towns. Kerouac has depicted the beat generation as a people that have been liberated from the danger of ideology, ambition and materialism, and a people that are motivated by the search for a greater meaning of life, a meaning that is beyond the understanding of the average white Americans. In essence, Kerouac can be referred to as the father of the beat culture.

Question 2:

In ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ it is true that the author, Kesey begins by introducing and emphasizing the contemporary American stereotypes characterized by gender issues, racism, andwesternism. As it turns out, Kesey’s use of psychological, religious and literary references has enabled him to drive the story into an archetypal hero’s tale. On one hand, heroism has been depicted throughout the dominance of women over the male exploitation of women, as seen through character Nurse Ratched

Gender roles and their place in the contemporary American society have been explored in the story through the conflict between the male and the female characters. Although the author has used two sets of women, the ‘ball-cutters’ and the submissive prostitutes, the archetypal gender stereotype comes out very well through the author’s empowerment of Nurse Ratched and his allowing her to use technology to suppress the male gender. Indeed, the ward is full of males but is managed by a tough woman. In one perspective in which the gender stereotype has been expressed in the novel, women appear as a matriarchal symbol, a representation of evil and a castrator of men. Indeed, the women that the author empowered have been portrayed as enemies of men since they threaten their self-esteem and independence of expression. Such instances depict the empowerment of women in a bad light since the empowered women were greatly opposed by men. In essence, the men only enjoyed pleasure from the prostitutes, the character of which women in the contemporary society despise.

Through the use of literary allusions and references, Kesey has made the novel appear discussion of the post-modernists. The depiction of the contemporary society’s archetypal stereotype can be seen from the confessions the characters made about one another, the comments from the narrator. Indeed, it is true to argue that Bromden’s father, an Indian, represents a man of nature, while the western man’s life has been characterized with the evils of technology, like he lobotomy that leaves the main protagonist a vegetable. In another perspective, although the main protagonist, McMurphyRatched. In essence, Keseymanages to use the characters to make the story an archetypal hero’s tale

Works Cited

Kerouac, Jack. On the road. Westminster, UK: Penguin Books, 2011. Print.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 50^th anniversary edition. New York, NY: Penguin Books US: