Help! Player Quote, plz translate. (1 Viewer)

[raistlin]

The Player in Stoppard’s play describes his role when he says:

“My own talent is more general. I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a thin beam of light that, seen at the right angle can crack the shell of mortality.” (page 60)

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i have no idea what all of this means. plzz help.
btw, what motivates the player?
(is it money in RAGAD? or the search for truth in Hamlet?- what else...)

 

[raistlin]

quick qns...

Player: Events must play themselves out to aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion. (Act Two, pg. 79)


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is it showing the Player's acceptance and understanding about destiny and fate?

 

[glitterfairy]

From quickly looking over the two, I'm noticing they really don't make much sense. From that assessment, I judge them to be examples of Absurdist theatre

Note all the contradictions.

Oh, the second quote could be linked to existentialism as well.