CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION
Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish avantgarde writer, playwright and poet, composition in English and French whose works offer a discouraging attitude toward human society. Beckett is viewed as one of the last pioneers; as incitement to a lot of people later creators, he is now and then considered one of the first postmodernists. He is likewise viewed as one of the key writer in what Martin Esslin called "Theater of the Absurd." As such, he is generally considered as a standout amongst the most powerful authors of the twentieth century. He picked up amazing fame and distinguishment with the execution of comic however cynical play WaitingFor Godotin which two characters are holding up for an otherworldly …show more content…
The crisis of identity, lonesco recommends, originates from early childhood when the individual encounters a partition from himself, from his surroundings, and from others. From that point, two states of being gap all existence: delight, wonder, and a firm consciousness of being rotating with mind-sets of anguish and estrangement from the self. This inward strain incites the single person to look for a more secure feeling of identity. The topic of research runs all through Ionesco’s theater, depicted as an allegorical quest for an alternate world or as an endeavor to penetrate the depths of the consciousness through dreams or a come back to childhood. These search fail, for the way to the self lies not in departure or a change of material circumstances, yet in the painful battle to keep up one's clarity and honesty against the forces that oppose individuality. The sections look at these powers: the hostility of the material world, the risk of death, the endeavors of the family and of society to force adjustment to social standards, and finally the breakdown of communication through the distortion of language into clichés and slogans. Artistic creation is a method for counterbalancing these pressures by uncovering the dangers of a mechanical existence and reaffirming the possibilities of the individual. Ionesco proposes no final …show more content…
And if he is time- resistant, it will be because he has proved himself as a character; he should, if he has any real worth, survive even after his message has become outdated. Poetically, it is not his thought but his passion and his imaginative life that will matter, for his message could quite as well be delivered now by a journalist, a philosopher or a moralist. Berenger may seem passive , but his very reluctance to make decisions, to be a leader, protects him from getting involved in ideological struggle that Ionesco dramatizes in Rhinoceros. Indeed, his indecision and empathy eventually become the source of a kind of strength. Rhinoceritis is not an illness of the Right or the Left; it cannot be contained within geo-political borders. Nor is it characteristic of a social class. It is the malady of conformity which knows no bounds, no boundaries. Rhinoceros is certainly an anti-Nazi play, yet it is also and mainly an attack on collective hysteria and the epidemics that lurk beneath the surface of reason and ideas but are none the less serious collective diseases passed off as ideologies. Berenger finds himself alone in a dehumanized world where each person tried to be just like all the others. It’s just because they all tried to be like each other that they became dehumanized, or rather depersonalized, which is after all the same thing. The fanatics have the same mixture of ingenuousness and ferocity. They would kill you
Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish avantgarde writer, playwright and poet, composition in English and French whose works offer a discouraging attitude toward human society. Beckett is viewed as one of the last pioneers; as incitement to a lot of people later creators, he is now and then considered one of the first postmodernists. He is likewise viewed as one of the key writer in what Martin Esslin called "Theater of the Absurd." As such, he is generally considered as a standout amongst the most powerful authors of the twentieth century. He picked up amazing fame and distinguishment with the execution of comic however cynical play WaitingFor Godotin which two characters are holding up for an otherworldly …show more content…
The crisis of identity, lonesco recommends, originates from early childhood when the individual encounters a partition from himself, from his surroundings, and from others. From that point, two states of being gap all existence: delight, wonder, and a firm consciousness of being rotating with mind-sets of anguish and estrangement from the self. This inward strain incites the single person to look for a more secure feeling of identity. The topic of research runs all through Ionesco’s theater, depicted as an allegorical quest for an alternate world or as an endeavor to penetrate the depths of the consciousness through dreams or a come back to childhood. These search fail, for the way to the self lies not in departure or a change of material circumstances, yet in the painful battle to keep up one's clarity and honesty against the forces that oppose individuality. The sections look at these powers: the hostility of the material world, the risk of death, the endeavors of the family and of society to force adjustment to social standards, and finally the breakdown of communication through the distortion of language into clichés and slogans. Artistic creation is a method for counterbalancing these pressures by uncovering the dangers of a mechanical existence and reaffirming the possibilities of the individual. Ionesco proposes no final …show more content…
And if he is time- resistant, it will be because he has proved himself as a character; he should, if he has any real worth, survive even after his message has become outdated. Poetically, it is not his thought but his passion and his imaginative life that will matter, for his message could quite as well be delivered now by a journalist, a philosopher or a moralist. Berenger may seem passive , but his very reluctance to make decisions, to be a leader, protects him from getting involved in ideological struggle that Ionesco dramatizes in Rhinoceros. Indeed, his indecision and empathy eventually become the source of a kind of strength. Rhinoceritis is not an illness of the Right or the Left; it cannot be contained within geo-political borders. Nor is it characteristic of a social class. It is the malady of conformity which knows no bounds, no boundaries. Rhinoceros is certainly an anti-Nazi play, yet it is also and mainly an attack on collective hysteria and the epidemics that lurk beneath the surface of reason and ideas but are none the less serious collective diseases passed off as ideologies. Berenger finds himself alone in a dehumanized world where each person tried to be just like all the others. It’s just because they all tried to be like each other that they became dehumanized, or rather depersonalized, which is after all the same thing. The fanatics have the same mixture of ingenuousness and ferocity. They would kill you