The former is being rewritten in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, while the latter is a recast of Macbeth in Eugène Ionesco’s Macbett. He saves his self-identity while others are losing theirs, though it is very hard.ĬONTEMPORARY SHAKESPEAREAN REWRITINGS IN THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD: STOPPARD AND IONESCO Abstract This paper aims to analyze the elements of the Theatre of the Absurd in two contemporary absurdist rewritings of Shakespeare’s classics, Hamlet and Macbeth, respectively. Almost all the characters, cattle-like, follow the bad norm, but Berenger refuses to surrender and embrace the transformation since he believes that it is better to change the essence not the form. They take new forms and risk man values and features hoping that they can find a meaning for their lives, but they fail. This study shows that humanity is in danger and also clarifies that human beings are fed up with being humans. They admire their new form and are happy with it as if being an animal was better than being a man in the current status. On the contrary, they go out and some of them happily receive it, like Daisy. The characters know the conversion is epidemic yet they do not resist it. Their change is not to return to their pure origin as human beings but to become a dangerous beast. The characters, except Berenger, become rhinoceroses they lose their subjective identity one after another. Unfortunately, the metamorphosis or the ego death in Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is mostly negative. In this case, mind will become a tabula rasa and the persons can design a beautiful future on it. This transformation of the psych is crucial for human beings to rebuild their lives if the ego death is positive. It simply means that the person improves his/her past life and makes radical changes in it as if he was born again he goes from one stage to another to start life anew. Although he takes a hard look at the world and the individual, Ionesco's theatre is not desperate but resolutely on the side of creative objection, inventive fantasy and freedom.Abstract In Jungian Psychology, Ego death is known as psychic death. So much so that this generalized epidemic of Rhinoceritis is also a fantasy, a poetic extravagance. If nowadays the norm has become the law, if formatting is de rigueur and self-image becomes an all-consuming obsession, then this fable must surely resonate strongly. The law of the strongest, the most enduring and the most ambitious. Only one man stands up to this strange epidemic: Berenger, the anti-hero torn between his desire to "be in the world" and his difficulty in fitting into a society where appearance is king, performance is compulsory and conformity is de rigueur. A great fictional tale about the disappearance of our world, a timeless creation from the repertoire of the Théâtre de la Ville.Ī city where all the inhabitants turn into rhinoceroses.
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