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Aspettando Godot - Beckett Carico di tutta la storia di mostruosità dei suoi tempi, l'uomo degli anni '50 sente di dover ricostruire una realtà ormai distrutta basandosi su quel mondo di sogni e incubi appartenenti al subconscio: nasce così il "Teatro dell'Assurdo." |
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The "Theatre of the Absurd" is a kind of
drama that attempts to portray and analyse the essential question
of the meaning of life in a period when religious explanations have
ceased to be valid: as Nietzsche said, "God is dead" or,
as Freud stated, life may be regarded as merely a "disease of
matter". While a traditional play was judged by the skill, depth
and realism of its characterisation and dialogue, the theatre of the
absurd seemed to abandon any attempt at achieving either. This places
man in the dilemma of being unable to find any essential purpose in
his actions - the dilemma of existentialism, of being confronted with
choices in day-to-day living and having to invent purposes and meanings
for himself without any metaphysical or intrinsic principles to guide
him. Naturally this also creates a problem for the dramatist: how
can he create a drama, which presupposes action, when the presupposition
on which existentialist drama is based is that all action is meaningless,
pointless and insignificant? Beckett solves the dramatic problem by
presenting characters who are obsessed by the meaninglessness of their
own lives, and yet who are haunted by a memory of significance, a
nostalgia for past meanings, coupled with the realisation that they
are no longer valid. Out of this clash of longing and rejection he
creates dramatic tension. These qualities are all embodied in Waiting for Godot, built around
the central theme of waiting - waiting for an event that never happens.
The two main characters are variously presented on stage as either tramps
or clowns. Vladimir: |