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... absurd . Paradoxes at the center of both plays intensify this effect : the assertion of man's will may order his world exactly as fate does , but the equation equals zero ; it is as self - defeating as it is finite . The disparity ...
... absurd . Paradoxes at the center of both plays intensify this effect : the assertion of man's will may order his world exactly as fate does , but the equation equals zero ; it is as self - defeating as it is finite . The disparity ...
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... absurd the absurd , Caligula necessarily intensifies it , and , like Tamburlaine , is hoist upon his own gallows . A third paradox emplifies the vibrations of the absurd in the two plays - the dichotomy between language and action ...
... absurd the absurd , Caligula necessarily intensifies it , and , like Tamburlaine , is hoist upon his own gallows . A third paradox emplifies the vibrations of the absurd in the two plays - the dichotomy between language and action ...
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... absurd , or tragic ? Or is it the tragedy of the absurd ? Thus two dramatists of different nationalities , different ages , dif- ferent temperaments , arrive at fundamentally the same conclusions about tragedy within man's existence ...
... absurd , or tragic ? Or is it the tragedy of the absurd ? Thus two dramatists of different nationalities , different ages , dif- ferent temperaments , arrive at fundamentally the same conclusions about tragedy within man's existence ...
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