DRAM 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Friedrich Nietzsche, Human Condition, Existentialism
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Absurdism - the raw back of human interaction. Sense making mechanism from whatever formal style that exists. Becket - life doesn"t make sense false mirror. Influences suggested that the world doesn"t make sense. Live in meaningless world and look for meaning- heroics. Humans don"t need false company stories of past. "we always find something to give us the impression we exist" - beckett. Reading of a different play- the bald soprano. The absurd is the mind that desires and the world that disappoints. The absurd = mystery = discontent (disappointment) = irrational. "either that wall paper has to go , or ill go" -oscare wilde"s last words. Beckett"s life is like -- born live die. Never learned if anything is final in the play. Parents seem like their parents die in the trashcan. For beckett - there"s no way our of illusion of life. Exposition, clear conflicts, rise and fall, climax, resolution.
