6 characters in search of an author
Date Submitted: 12/20/2003 12:28:01
In Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello sets out to prove that the subjective is inescapable. He proposed that human beings are isolated from one another, and can never communicate the full truth of their identity to each other. The play portrays various power struggles, between the Characters and Actors, and amongst the Characters themselves.
The Characters battle for the stage, in order to impose their view of reality and experience on the
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who are desperately in search of their purpose, to act out their miserable lives, are in a state of constant disharmony and contempt with each other and the actors. Their dilemma will never be resolved, because their own lives will be interpreted differently by others: the audience, as well as the actors who would portray them. The six characters will always live with the terrible pain of their written-out lives, which will follow them forever.
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