TA 2014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Purgatory, Panic Attack, Suicide Watch
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3 years in senegal with peace corp get him out of limited perspective global challenges entered grad school with that experience. Not bound by one particular style screenwriting as well. Conforming and unwillingless to make individual moral choices is what made the. We are defined by our choices, our personal standards of behavior. We can bring order out of chaos through our choices; finding ourselves and making choices that go against everything that surrounds us. Absurdists were responding to the holocaust but also to the atomic bomb. Among writers who lived before and after the possibility of weapons of mass destruction. Shows an absurb universe through stage images and language of empty meaning. Absurd=that which is contrary to reason (world that never adds up full of questions) Characters exist in ravaged landscapes (=the human condition) struggle to keep going in inhospitable world. Tiger can be any age older, scrappy, past his prime, any race except middle eastern,
