Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World both deal with closed cultures tightly controlled by an authority. Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a psychiatric ward run by the "Big Nurse", while Brave New World encompasses a wider society governed by the World State. Both societies function because dissent is prohibited. In every community there appears an outsider who attempts to disrupt control by exercising free will. In both texts, free will must be eradicated because it is seen as a threat to the authority and stability of society. By examining how control is exercised, the stranger as a subversive element, and the necessity of the stranger's death, one can determine the effectiveness of the protagonist's sacrifice in these two novels. Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest presents a situation that is a small-scale and exaggerated model of modern society and its suppressive qualities. The story is about the inmates of a psychiatric ward who are all under the control of Nurse Ratched, "Big Nurse", whose name itself signifies the oppressive nature of her authority. She rules with an iron fist so that the department can function smoothly to achieve rehabilitation of patients suffering from various mental illnesses. Big Nurse is introduced to the reader through the eyes of Chief, the narrator of the story, and much of her control is depicted through Chief's hallucinations. One of the most recurring elements is fog, a metaphorical mist that keeps patients confused and controlled. “The fog: then the weather no longer means anything. He’s lost in the fog, like everyone else” (Kesey 69 years old). Another element of his control are the cables, although the leader only brings this middle of paper to opposite ends of the spectrum. McMurphy's sacrifice resulted in success, while Savage's did not. There is a key difference that causes this. The attempt at control in Cuckoo's Nest begins late in the inmates' lives; they are able to resist it to some extent and were able to use McMurphy's rebellion as a means to gain their freedom. In Brave New World, control begins immediately with life. People don't rebel because they don't even have the idea of ​​rebelling. Their lives are so programmed that they can barely think for themselves and the Savage's attempts to deprogram them are doomed to failure. McMurphy was fighting a difficult battle, but the Savage ran into a steep cliff. Works Cited Kesey, Ken. One of them flew over a cuckoo's nest. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Publisher HarperCollins.