Characters And Interrogatives

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Interrogatives and assertives to enhance conflict in Six characters in Search of an Author

Interrogatives are denoting or belonging to a class of words, such as “which” and “whom”, that are determiners, adjectives, or pronouns and serve to question which individual referent or referents are Interrogated, whereas assertives are confident and direct in claiming one's rights or putting forward one's views Six characters in Search of an Author is a famous play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello, the play is set in the time period of the World war. It was a period marked by scientific development, where more importance was given to the reason rather than faith, belief and fantasy.

For building up one of the main ideas which is disbelief or deception, Pirandello uses the same techniques as shakespeare uses in when he decribes about ‘fair and foul’ in Macbeth . The audience is force to believe that the characters are real even though in reality they are just the creation of the authorhere Piradello put many sentences that contradict the other sentences for example the father says that ”Nowhere. I want to try to show that one can be thus into life… as a character in a play” . Here we now that the characters have no life but pirandello still uses the father to say that they have life. This support theme of

The characters dressed in black and wearing masks seem to appear out of nowhere. Their entry point, walking down the aisle in the theatre was a novel idea in those days. When only the legitimate family is left together, we understand the society which was not very accepting and illegitimate children like the younger brother were considered outcasts in those days. The play also deals with myriad human emotions like remorse, rejection and bitterness. To express them accurately the writer has used appropriate style, which enhances the form which has a deep impact on the audience. The father’s dialogues are unique hence, he is voiced more effectively. The little boy and the girl do not speak throughout the play; however they demonstrate that silence is also a powerful tool in the hands of a clever dramatist. The play marks a date in history. Pirandello made this play realistic so as to make it more appealing to the audience. It is one of the renowned plays of the Italian theatre. Pirandello used interrogatives and assertive to enhance the conflicts including strong