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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on Existentialism ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second
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World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have often used
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the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even
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during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan" past the
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German censors because it appeared to be very Anti-British. French
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audiences however immediately understood the real meaning of the play, and
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replaced the British with the Germans. Those sorts of "hidden meanings"
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were common throughout the period so that plays would be able to pass
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censorship.
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Existentialism proposes that man is full of anxiety and despair
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with no meaning in his life, just simply existing, until he made decisive
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choice about his own future. That is the way to achieve dignity as a human
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being. Existentialists felt that adopting a social or political cause was
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one way of giving purpose to a life. Sartre is well known for the "Theatre
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engage" or Theatre 'committed', which is supposedly committed to social
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and/or political action.
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On of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul
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Sartre. Sartre had been imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to
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escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other
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popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like
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Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground
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when he wrote his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of
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Sisyphus". Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the
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top of a mountain, only to have it roll back down again. For Camus, this
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related heavily to everyday life, and he saw Sisyphus an "absurd" hero,
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with a pointless existence. Camus felt that it was necessary to wonder
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what the meaning of life was, and that the human being longed for some
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sense of clarity in the world, since "if the world were clear, art would
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not exist". "The Myth of Sisyphus" became a prototype for existentialism in
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the theatre, and eventually The Theatre of the Absurd.
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Right after the Second World War, Paris became the theatre capital
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of the west, and popularized a new form of surrealistic theatre called
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"Theatre of the Absurd". Many historians contribute the sudden popularity
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of absurdism in France to the gruesome revelations of gas chambers and war
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atrocities coming out of Germany after the war. The main idea of The
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Theatre of the Absurd was to point out man's helplessness and pointless
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existence in a world without purpose. As Richard Coe described it "It is
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the freedom of the slave to crawl east along the deck of a boat going
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west". Two of the most popular playwrights of this time include Samuel
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Beckett, who's most famous piece was "Waiting for Godot", and Eugene
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Ioensco with "Exit the King". Most absurdist plays have no logical plot.
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The absence of the plot pushes an emphasis on proving the pointless
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existence of man. Quite often, such plays reveal the human condition at
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it's absolute worst.
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Absurdist playwrites often used such techniques as symbolism, mime,
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the circus, and the commedia dell'arte, which are quite evident in the more
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popular plays of the time, such as Waiting for Godot, The Bald Prima Donna,
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and Amedee.
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