"Be obscure clearly." I would definitely recommend it to Mr. Eugene Ionesco while he was writing
The Future is in Eggs, or It Takes All Sorts to Make a World. Who is the PROTAGONIST and ANTAGONIST of this play? To be honest, I was thinking about it at least last 15 minutes!
Firstly, I was thinking what are Ionesco's characters trying to achieve? Obviously, the purpose of their existence is to reproduce. In fact, Father-Jacques claims it himself, "We must assure the continuity of our race."(pg. 131) While
evaluating this purpose, I´ve realised that if this piece has antagonists it cannot be any of the characters but it is their dialogues.
The book is overfilled by incomprehension and useless exclamations.The only thing they are fighting against is the COMMUNICATION.
Actually, this is one the key points that Ionesco tried to highlight in his works. Communication is the crucial step how to achieve something in a group. And if it doesn´t work...just look at the nice example listed below. God punished us by confusing the languages at the tower of Babel because he knew that if we couldn´t communicate we would find it more difficult to unify on a huge tasks. He was/is the smart one!
That's a remarkable idea!!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think that communication itself is innocent, and it is PEOPLE who are to blame, who abuse communication and make it useless.. So maybe, the protagonists of this play are also antagonists, because they actually fight against themselves.. (?) =)
I have to agree with you.
DeleteCommunication has no free decisions, we cannot blame it. We have to blame people for nonsense phrases and dialogues. But! If the characters are protagonists as well as antagonist then the result of this would be that there are non. Actually, that is what I thought on the first place. :)