Ionesco'nun Kral Can Çekişiyor Adlı Yapıtı Üzerine Bir Biçem Çalışması

Abstract

In this study, The King Is Fading Away, one of most well-known plays of Absurd Theatre, has been studied in terms of style, and the elements of language, character, dream and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, and satire have been analysed. Language is an effective means of reflecting reality according to lonesco as the new novelists so. While doing so, language has been presented with many figures of speech such as puns and gestures. Characters are very different from the ones in traditional (classic) tragedies and the actors are very active by using language, feelings and action rather than their physical appearance and personality. The subject play reflects the interior world of the King who deeply distressed by the thought of death. While presenting his conscious and subconscious worlds, lonesco uses symbols, fantastic elements, and dream. lonesco can be considered to be a surrealist playwright due to his way of handling dream. He uses together fantasy world and realistic method in his work. In this play, tragic and comic elements have been interwoven. The author uses satire as well. Two types of satire are mentioned: existential satire and social satire, in existential satire, the author analyses the human in between death and non- existence whereas in social satire the social gap between classes illustrated by the King and his servant is highlighted. As a conclusion, in lonesco's work, the function of motivating and attracting the reader and audience's attention is largely based on the usage of language rather than delightful decoration of stage as in traditional theatre.