Theatre of the Absurd

[ecks]

What is everyone's opinion on this movement? So far I'm browsing over Ionesco's plays like The Bald Soprano and The Lesson. It examines words and language as a whole as restrictive and conformive. It is true that people make many generalizations and axioms, which always have an exception, but there is no other way.

 

[demetrio]

It is true that people make many generalizations and axioms, which always have an exception, but there is no other way.

Educated people think double entendres are far worse, they only make them want to lie with each other.

(weak, I know Didn't wanna be too dirty)

 

[ecks]

Yes, well that's a theme in "The Lesson", is that a meaning to a word is only an interpetation from a different person, therefore words are relative to each. To each of us, a word is associated with a feeling or experience, which is different to everyone. Let's say, to one person love might mean happiness, to another it might mean hurt and betrayal, based on their experience of that phenomenon. Therefore, how is it possible to communicate properly, since everyone has a different meaning associated with a word.