Maschera: tra apparenza e realtà

La maschera...

Tra realtà e apparenza

“Tutti gli uomini mentono quando parlano in prima persona… dategli una maschera e vi dirà la verità”.

-Oscar Wilde-

Essere quello che realmente siamo, o fingere di essere qualcun altro è il dilemma che affligge ogni uomo moderno che è spesso spinto, dal mondo esterno o dal suo io interiore, a nascondersi dietro una maschera per apparire più forte, più sicuro o semplicemente diverso da come è realmente.

Katerine Yuvis Yepez Silva

Liceo Scientifico “G. Marconi”

Cascia

Classe V° ASC

Inglese

“Every man lies, but give him a mask and he will be sincere”.

Oscar Wilde.

He was the major spokesman for the Aesthetic movement in the late 19th century and an advocate of “Art for art’s sake”, which proposes that beauty has no utilitarian value and is independent of morality.

He studied at Oxford where he lived as a dandy that was the image of an eccentric man who gave importance to the way in which a man appeared and for this reason he was both criticized and admired.

This figure was based on his belief that in life, as in art, the artist’s duty was to cultivate beauty and give aesthetic pleasure.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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The plot

John Worthing, the protagonist, even known as Jack, is an orphan who was found by a really rich man.

He became a successful businessman and he is currently the guardian of his stepfather’s granddaughter, Miss Cecily Cardew.

He has a big house in the country where he lives with Cecily and a lot of domestics.

He originally invented his brother Ernest because he wanted to be free to go in the city as often as he liked so he could evade from reality.

As Ernest, Jack is in love with Gwendolen Moncrief, the cousin of Algernon another idle man (and Ernest friend) who, in turn, has invented an invalid friend, Bumbury, as an excuse to evade his duties in London.

When Jack proposes to Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell, her mother, forbids the marriage on the grounds that Jack is a foundling.

Meanwhile, Algernon discovers that Ernest is Jack and also that he has a ward, Cecily.

Under the name of Ernest, he goes to Jack’s country house to meet her.

The two immediately fall in love.

Cecily found him irresistible because his name Ernest.

They are soon joined by Gwendolen, then by Jack, and finally by Lady Bracknell.

There follow a series of comic misunderstandings and extraordinary coincidences.

In the end Jack (who was left in a hang-bag at Victoria Station by his absent-minded governess), discovers that he is Algernon’s brother, and that his name is Ernest as he always pretended.

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Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento 1867. Ricevette il premio Nobel nel 1934. Ammalatosi di polmonite morì nel 1936.

“La vita è un enorme pupazzata” ... Luigi Pirandello

La maschera e Pirandello

Pirandello rappresentò sulle scene l’incapacità dell’uomo di identificarsi con la propria personalità, il dramma della ricerca di una verità al di là delle convenzioni e delle apparenze.

Al centro della concezione pirandelliana c’è il contrasto tra apparenza e sostanza.

Ciascuno vede la realtà secondo le proprie idee e i propri sentimenti, in un modo diverso da quello degli altri: a fronte della realtà esterna che si presenta una e immutabile, abbiamo le centomila realtà interne di ciascun personaggi, per cui la vera realtà è nessuna.

L’uomo però deve adeguarsi ad una legge imposta dalla società, egli si costruisce quindi una maschera.

Siccome il personaggio non ha nessuna possibilità di mutare la propria maschera si verifica la disintegrazione fisica e spirituale dei personaggi che si può riassumere nella teoria della triplicità esistenziale: come il

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