Sunday, January 9, 2011

Class notes: 11/13 - 11/17

This week we began watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
  • In this play, R&G are constantly confused.  Throughout all the seemingly meaningless and random dialogue, there are subtle messages about the meaning of life.  The confusion that this places on the audience symbolizes the message of the confusing meaning to life.

Theater of the Absurd: plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless
  • R&G is considered Theater of the Absurd
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2 comments:

  1. DonneJanuary 17, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    Yeah. There wasn't too much to write. Got it, though. Pass.

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  2. davidbrusstarJanuary 17, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    Pass. Wrote what you could from what speaking in class there was.

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