![]() ![]() The play uses aspects of naturalism such as the realistic stage, setting, behavior and dialogue. Throughout the play the characters persistently insist on the literal accuracy of every movement, gesture, and intonation of the actors. The technique of Pirandello in this play is characterized by an ironic parody of naturalism. This philosophical scrutiny of the relation between the illusion and reality is an element of modernism. Their debate continued to persist, but the tragic death had already occurred. At last both the manager and the father were left debating over whether the death of the Boy and the child was reality or pretense. This happened perceptibly in the last part of the play. The boundary between the illusion and the reality is in a position to blur. ![]() Reality can be exchangeable with illusion. In the world solely guided by the tenets of modernism reality can become a part and parcel of illusion and vice versa. According to Pirandello, reality can no longer remain an antithesis of illusion. Pirandello proposed, through the medium of this play, that realism has no right to assume a sovereign status in the universe of play writing. Perhaps this play alone is a play to pronounce that realism cannot succeed confidently to tackle the new problems in the lives of modern man. It exposes unhesitatingly the loopholes and shortcomings of realism. The play Six Characters in Search of an Author experiments with the limits of realism. ![]()
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