THEA 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Logarithm, Søren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus
21 Apr 2015
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Notes from class discussion or off magdalena"s presentation. Is repetitive: magdalena repeats it three times. Not in place because we"re in a theatre class. If continues, we may become: hopeless, stuck, desperate, doesn"t make sense, feel trapped. Canada going to isis proves that it"s repetitive and shows that we"re not progressing. Warsaw ghetto 1943 (picture): iconic photo, everyone in the photo can be identified except for the little boy. Absurd theatre is: repetitive, doesn"t make sense, is absurd. Absurd theatre deals with: world that doesn"t make sense, empty performance, cacophony. King of coran is known for being most clever and devious. He tries to outsmart death: e. g. Once he gets to the top, the boulder rolls down and he has to repeat the process again. Camus introduces the philosophy of the absurd. He argues that we can"t see the absurdity until it becomes conscious. Human life is futile, meaningless and absurd as the sisyphus .
