The Crucible/Cuckoo's nest com

Texts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; The Crucible, Nicholas Hytner production of Arthur Miller's screenplay Question: Explain how the authors of the two texts present similar ideas, although they tell different stories. When ideas surpass both time and place, it is only logical that different authors presenting the theories in separate texts can maintain synonymous perceptions whilst creating superficially unrelated stories. A most clear example of this fact is witnessed in the …

…both characters were rendered impotent in the face of the evil that surrounded them. To underestimate the significance of this is to ignore the most important idea One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Crucible share. In reality, one cannot fight the "devil" that is an arrogant, power hungry society with books, pens, or words of wisdom; but rather with the weapons known only as common sense, diligent scepticism, and the voice of truth.