Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Interpretation
Drama amplifies emotions to the point of distortion, making ordinary life seem extraordinary.
Eugene Ionesco emphasizes that drama operates by taking everyday feelings and amplifying them to such an extent that they become detached from normal reality. This exaggeration serves to enhance the audience's emotional experience and reveals deeper truths about the human condition, contrasting mundane life with the intensity of dramatic expression.
In practice
In a theater class discussing the role of exaggeration in drama.
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.
I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. β¦ In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent itβs an idealized order Iβm imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.