Final Essay – Peter Barnes
Barnes’s Auschwitz, uses black comedy to raise awareness that in a godless world, we have forgotten what it means to be human, and show kindness. In other words, we have lost our humanity. We ended up creating a greedy and hypocritical, thus inhumane society. Davis’, Bentley’s and Sypher’s view on comedy explains the different consequences of an immoral world. Davis’ explains that with an amoral attitude towards comedy it becomes very easy to treat each other like objects. For Bentley we have created this false reality, where we avoid the suffering of others, and where we are the greatest victims. And Sypher explains in a world that has no meaning, the only persons that matters is ourselves.
According to Sypher, if we are capable of killing one another and corrupting our society to the point where the only persons …show more content…
We have created an egotistical society that revolves around greed and hypocrisy. This is seen many times in Barnes’s Auschwitz, each scene shows a different aspect of greed and hypocrisy, giving us only a glimpse of today’s society, but all of them together show how corrupted and egotistical society is as a whole. First off, when Cranach and Gottleb are trying to one-up each other by producing memos (p.2-93) to prove the other wrong but most importantly to prove themselves
Barnes’s Auschwitz, uses black comedy to raise awareness that in a godless world, we have forgotten what it means to be human, and show kindness. In other words, we have lost our humanity. We ended up creating a greedy and hypocritical, thus inhumane society. Davis’, Bentley’s and Sypher’s view on comedy explains the different consequences of an immoral world. Davis’ explains that with an amoral attitude towards comedy it becomes very easy to treat each other like objects. For Bentley we have created this false reality, where we avoid the suffering of others, and where we are the greatest victims. And Sypher explains in a world that has no meaning, the only persons that matters is ourselves.
According to Sypher, if we are capable of killing one another and corrupting our society to the point where the only persons …show more content…
We have created an egotistical society that revolves around greed and hypocrisy. This is seen many times in Barnes’s Auschwitz, each scene shows a different aspect of greed and hypocrisy, giving us only a glimpse of today’s society, but all of them together show how corrupted and egotistical society is as a whole. First off, when Cranach and Gottleb are trying to one-up each other by producing memos (p.2-93) to prove the other wrong but most importantly to prove themselves