In most of his plays, Eugene Ionesco satirizes life according to norms derived from social prejudices. In line with the tradition of the theater of the absurd, he touches on the strange and at the same time ridiculous nature of a world dominated by i ...
In most of his plays, Eugene Ionesco satirizes life according to norms derived from social prejudices. In line with the tradition of the theater of the absurd, he touches on the strange and at the same time ridiculous nature of a world dominated by inanimate objects, in which humans, following the conventions of society, never question their status.
| In Jacques or Obedience, through seemingly absurd dialogues and surrealistic imagery and language games, we read about the efforts of Jacques's family to force him to marry Robert. Jacques' character then reappears in the future play In the Eggs. Here, Ionesco once again mocks society's general understanding of the concept of love and marriage. Jacques and Robert are now married, and their families eagerly await the fruit of this union. Under pressure from their families, the two begin to work separately, and the eggs fall into the baskets one after the other. This accumulation of objects on stage, a familiar image in Unesco's works, also plays a prominent role in The New Tenant. During the moving of Monsieur, the main character of the play, his furniture gradually enters the stage, eventually leaving no space.
| Unesco, with his incomparable intelligence and humor, portrays characters in these works who act ridiculously, without a shred of realism, stubbornly and completely relying on their instincts. However, the echo of the commotion they create bears a strange resemblance to the sound of our daily lives.
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