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...Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” and as Henry himself notes, his “flip-book” would have two doors, “but no exit.” This conceit is reminiscent of the hellish, locked claustrophobia of Sartre??s “Huis Clos...
...When freedom lights the beacon in a man’s heart, gods are powerless against him,” Zeus says in Jean-Paul Sartre??s play “The Flies.” Through the Electra myth, Sartre??s work skillfully explores notions of free will and human essence. This mélange of existentialism and Greek mythology would have been unremarkable to the 20th century audience for whom the play was written. But redefined within the contours of the 21st century—as the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club?...
There is no doubt that Sartre??s original adaptation of the Greek mythology is brilliant. The play tells the story of Orestes and his sister. After an affair between their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus results in the death of their father Agamemnon, the siblings avenge him by killing the responsible couple, who had taken over the kingdom of Argos, imposing their guilt upon the people in the form of perpetual mourning and black clothing. Sartre cleverly ties this in with existentialism. The guilt does not belong to the people but they are forced to express...
...life and literature—and that literature is often as hilarious and absurd as it is disturbing.When not in an insane asylum, one character spends his life producing 500-page-plus refutations of philosophers ranging from Voltaire to Rousseau, including a five-volume critique of Sartre??s “Being and Nothingness.” Another character’s play combines scenes of rape with a masturbation contest (judged in three categories: thickness, length, “and, most importantly, distance covered by semen”) between the ambassadors of three nations. A third character...
...section guy.” Well, don’t apply to take time off just yet. Cut out the Harvard Survival Guide Drinking Game, buy yourself a nice big hip flask, and start playing. 1.) Someone says “Foucault,” “Sartre?? or “Marx” in section 2.) You see The Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services (AODS) Nalgene 3.) You see a DHA tuxedo 4.) Someone asks a question in lecture—double shot it if they speak twice in the same lecture 5.) Somebody...
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