Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author -- analysis, dramatic elements, dramatis personae, themes (with textual reference), genre, synopsis, setting

Date Submitted: 06/12/2004 10:02:39
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Theater
Length: 4 pages (1008 words)
Views: 80161

Six Characters in Search of an Author By: Luigi Pirandello GENRE: Italian Drama - theatre of the grotesque SETTING: Daytime, the present, the stage of a theatre THEMES: How does one define reality/truth? "At least admit that the actress who will play her will be less true than what you see before your very eyes" (Father, II) DRAMATIS PERSONAE: THE CHARACTERSTHE COMPANY FatherDirector MotherLeading Man StepdaughterLeading Lady SonSecond Female Lead Boy (mute role)Ingenue …

Is this essay helpful? Join now to read this particular paper and access over 480,000 just like it!

…to life the story that was created by the Author. Perhaps Pirandello is drawing a subtle connection between the Characters' quest, and our own search for "truth." In the end of the play, the Characters vanish after completing their demonstration. Through their quest for self-definition, the Characters actually achieve self-definition. Perhaps Pirandello is trying to say that, in a circular fashion, it is our human quest to define ourselves that, in the end, defines us.

Need a unique paper?