Tragedy In Duerrenmatt

The visit starts as an ominous and dramatic, effectively foreshadows the tragedy to come. This story took place in a town by the name of Guellen. This town was thought to be a very humanistic, with a cultured history until they were faced with a solution to their current circumstances. Based on their current appearances it was hard to fathom that Guellen was ones a very renowned, impoverished and accomplished town. The catastrophic state of the town imposes the question of how this came to be on the audiences’ mind. Goethe once spent a night there, Brahms composed a quartet within its borders, and Duerrenmatt who was once was a brilliant art student and painter welcomes everyone to the Guellen on the train stations sigh proving how important the town was. Guellen was also a town full of citizens with potential, talents, and potential that was suppressed by their current circumstances. In Act One, introduced a series of the town’s most important leaders, they are all gathered enthusiastically at the train station anticipating the arrival of, Claire, their only hope of restoring the town to its former glory. In this portion of the play the audience learns the key facts about Claire. That “Claire is the richest woman in the world”, “Claire is a native of Guellen”, and “Claire and Ill were lovers in …show more content…
In Claire's mind, "justice" past wrongs: Claire believes in "an eye for an eye." In their youth, Ill "forced" Claire into her circumstances by contaminating the justice system with false witnesses and lies, thereby revealing the system's inability to discern the truth. While her lifestyle, at the time of her visit, may appear enviable, she is furious because she was not permitted to choose it for herself. Her life has been wholly determined by the actions of