I am going to use brainstorming, one of the five useful pre-writing strategies in my attempt to generate and clarify my ideas on the drama Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.
I began with listing out the famous quotes by Eugene Ionesco, a Romanian-born French playwright, taken from http://www.allgreatquotes.com/.
Life is an abnormal business
Jean, in The Rhinoceros
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
The Rhinoceros
You can only predict things after they have happened.
The Rhinoceros.
I have watched Rhinoceros on stage, Eugene Ionesco’s great play about conformity. Jeff Snyder in his writing “Good Men Make Good Rhinoceroses” relates the theme of Rhinoceros with the September 11 tragedy as well as the Iraq war. He also explains Ionesco’s Rhinoceros was prompted by Ionesco’s reflections on the German people’s transformation into Nazis.
I remember I came across one assignments (from the Internet) requesting students to relate something about Nazi with this great play. It was not clear to me why one should be studying about Nazi in relation to Rhinoceros. Now, it makes sense to me after reading Jeff Snyder’s writing.
What began by the experience of going into theatre for the first time, stumbling into one great play (very lucky of me, indeed!), curiosity gets the mind working further, here I am, can’t get enough of my time to read all I can about Rhinoceros.
I began with listing out the famous quotes by Eugene Ionesco, a Romanian-born French playwright, taken from http://www.allgreatquotes.com/.
Life is an abnormal business
Jean, in The Rhinoceros
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
The Rhinoceros
You can only predict things after they have happened.
The Rhinoceros.
I have watched Rhinoceros on stage, Eugene Ionesco’s great play about conformity. Jeff Snyder in his writing “Good Men Make Good Rhinoceroses” relates the theme of Rhinoceros with the September 11 tragedy as well as the Iraq war. He also explains Ionesco’s Rhinoceros was prompted by Ionesco’s reflections on the German people’s transformation into Nazis.
I remember I came across one assignments (from the Internet) requesting students to relate something about Nazi with this great play. It was not clear to me why one should be studying about Nazi in relation to Rhinoceros. Now, it makes sense to me after reading Jeff Snyder’s writing.
What began by the experience of going into theatre for the first time, stumbling into one great play (very lucky of me, indeed!), curiosity gets the mind working further, here I am, can’t get enough of my time to read all I can about Rhinoceros.
Phew! I wish I have all the time in the world!
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