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In Walden Thoreau writes that people "live meanly like ants". In other words, people bide their lives in a seemingly endless routine, perhaps due to societal pressures to maintain a steady employment, and easily succumb to a monotonous life. Keven Kesey also illustrates this idea in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. To Chief Bromden, the narrator, the monotonous routine he and the other patients are forced to endure, makes it appear like the "Big Nurse is able to set the wall clock at whatever speed she wants by just turning one of those dials in the steel door [...][and] generally, it's the [...] slow way"(73). As a result, as with any routine, dull life, it appears as though each day is spent wishing the day would pass by more quickly, but wondering, at the same time, where all the years have gone. |
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