What if this monkey were free? Would he be able to resist the natural temptations to live as a monkey does, wild and naughty? Think of it this way... What if most monkeys could escape their cages, but refuse to because they know that they would be beaten by their keepers and thrown into the same cage..... maybe even a worse one.
Nabokov was interested in what would happen to the monkey who thought he was smart enough to let himself out of the cage without being caught.... but instead of being beaten by his keeper, he was beaten by another monkey.
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