EUGENE IONESCO

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EUGENE IONESCO

• THE LESSON

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• Ionescos second play.
• Written in June 1950
• Performed in February 1951
• Concerned with language
• - Real And imaginary
• - Impossibility of communication
• Language as an instrument of power
• - Pupil
• - Professor

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• Moment of weakness
• - Pupil
• - Professor
• Form of dictatorship dominant relationship
• - Professor pupil
• - Dictator - people

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The Structure

• Game starts
• Interlude
• Sexual Stimulation
• Impudence
• Pleasure / Fear / Pain

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• Overt expressions
• Gratification