Write a report on the life and ideas of Luigi Pirandello as presented in the 7 part video.
Some terms in the video of Pirandello’s life:
Nihilism
Creation of illusion
Agrigento, Casa di Pirandello
Kaos
People have shifting anxieties
Nothing is true. Life is unstable, changing. Since we cannot carry out our plans, all we can do is improvise as we go along.
Plays embody ideas in characters
Commedia dell arte
Transcendental / black farce
The pointlessness of human existence
People have outer masks that they present to others and inner masks.
Without an ordered existence, we are free to become all things
For conventional people, life is stable, for mad people, life is instability, change, destabilization
Our private worlds cause us to understand words differently from the way others understand them. This is true of each person, so no one truly understands anyone else.
The distinction between HUMOR and COMEDY. In comedy we laugh at, but in humor we experience a range of emotions, including pity, sadness and even admiration.
Pirandello is not a nihilist, because he creates
