holdencaulfield
04-04-2006, 06:15 AM
has anyone observed the close proximity between the absurd and the tragic?
the tragic is individual experience while absurd is universal.hamlet, of all the other heroes, was both at the same time.he was an existentialist figure.like sisyphus he was happy in the end.
mr. bean is not tragic because he is lonely, but because he is thrown into a world whose mechanism he can't understand.thats his tragedy.its a form of subverted tragedy because one would expect "ripeness is all" in tragic conception:modern existence thrives on absurd subversions,doesnt it?
the tragic is individual experience while absurd is universal.hamlet, of all the other heroes, was both at the same time.he was an existentialist figure.like sisyphus he was happy in the end.
mr. bean is not tragic because he is lonely, but because he is thrown into a world whose mechanism he can't understand.thats his tragedy.its a form of subverted tragedy because one would expect "ripeness is all" in tragic conception:modern existence thrives on absurd subversions,doesnt it?