Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Visions Of
Modernity
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- Identities
- La Conoscienza
di Zeno: Italo
Svevo
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- Il fumo
- Zeno is sick
- Morte del padre
- Matrimonio
- Moglie e amante
- Un'associazione
- Psico-analisi
- The world is sick
- Enrico IV: Luigi Pirandello
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- Construction of identity
- Enrico's real name is never learned
- Theme : Masks.
- Imprisoned within the mask. A self fulfilling prophecy of identity
- Masks begin normally by choice but Enrico chooses to become Emperor Henry after 12 years
- This makes his mask unique
- Public vs private persona
- Mise en abîme : a play within a play
- Enrico's first dialogue has him talking about masks
- Causes Matilda di Spina to be so disturbed/shocked that she faints
- Enrico's makeup is heavy, resembling a mask, or at least a different face
- Don Quixote
- Theme : Time
- Modernity and madness
- Enricos realisation of true identity. Makes him teeter between sanity and madness
- Doctor /psychiatrist is symbol of modernity
- Employs unorthodox methods in an attempt to 'cure' the patient
- In act I, characters dressed in modern clothes are made to change. Enrico believed it to be witchcraft
- Similarities with La Coscienza di Zeno
- The psychiatrist
- Eccentric protagonists
- Cities
- Mario Sironi
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- Giorgio De Chirico
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- Lack of human presence motif
- Men and
Machines
- Minnie La Candida: Massimo Bontempelli
- Giorgio De Chirico
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