Metaphysical Silence In Absurd Drama
- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- Published by University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) in Modern Drama
- Vol. 13 (4) , 423-431
- https://doi.org/10.3138/md.13.4.423
Abstract
MELVILLE DEVOTES A CHAPTER OF Moby-Dick to analysis of the color white. He states that white has great terror and power because it is the absence of all color. Into this void each man projects his own significance. The white whale becomes a potent symbol, all the more so because of its ambiguity. Of great importance in contemporary absurd drama is a similar symbol of emptiness with rich but ambiguous interpretations—silence.Keywords
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