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Laughter is often seen as a form of therapy by both optimists and doctors. Joseph Heller and Ken Kesey also saw laughter as a type of medicine. These authors saw laughter as a medium for their criticism of modern social institutions. This criticism can be appl ....

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.... The way in which these situations take on such a drastic change in meaning results in a type of emotional experience for the reader. At first, the reader is entertained, but then they realize the seriousness of the situation, and the reader realizes that the joke is on them. The author knew that they would laugh, and the author knew that the reader would be disgusted with themselves because of it. Consequently, the very nature of this process and the sense of personal guilt that is involved invokes a sense of anger. This anger is directed towards the reason for the situation or absurdity. Therefore, the absurdities found in these nove ....