Here's the first set of vocab words for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. You may leave a comment here to go toward your blogging grade using one of the words below in a sentence that shows me you understand the meaning of the word.
Dandyism = The act of paying excessive attention to the smartness of one's appearance & clothes
"'My dear sweet but illiterate wife thinks any word or gesture that does not smack of brickyard brawn and brutality is a word or gesture of weak dandyism.'" (p. 44)
Id = The part of the unconscious that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction
"'Yes, with your talent, my friend, you could work subconscious miracles, soothe the aching id...'" (p. 56)
Matriarchy = a social organization in which women have the most authority
"'We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.'" (p. 59)
Placate = to appease or pacify; to bring to a state of calm
"'You don't lose your temper and shout at her; she'll win by trying to placate her big ol' angry boy...'" (p. 66)
Stoicism = repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain
"'Gentlemen, already I seem to detect in our redheaded challenger a most unheroic decline of his TV cowboy stoicism.'" (p. 73)
