1. Reality
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2. Literature -> 4. Identity -> 5. Hierarchy -> 6. Tension
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3. Effects
Forman wrote in 2012: "To me, the story was not just literature, but real life, the life I lived in Czechoslovakia from my birth in 1932 until 1968. The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched, telling me what I could and could not do; what I was or was not allowed to say; where I was and was not allowed to go; even who I was and was not"