![]() Interestingly, the six characters become real participants of the play, and their search for an author becomes the only way for them to continue their lives. Pirandello cultivates the idea of the process of the search for the advisor as to the way of finding answers to the eternal question of life: what one’s identity is. The drama is strikingly complex in its diversity of characters involved in the multifaceted portrayal of both, the inside theatre work, and the illusionary characters that become a reality. Therefore, they ask the Manager to become their author and lead them through the play. They are the characters of an unwritten play, and they need to find “any author” for their lives to find meaning (Pirandello 4). The Absence of an Author as the Absence of the Sense of Life in Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandelloĭuring a rehearsal at a theatre, a family of six characters with difficult relationships between its members enters the stage. ![]() The author of the research is a scholar working for the Department of English Language and Literature at the Islamic Azad University and is an author of multiple articles on the topics of literature and psychology. The scholarly article chosen for the paper is Ali Jamalinesari’s “Anima/Animus and Wise Old Man in Six Characters in Search of an Author.” It explicitly articulates the issues of missing identities through the perspective of the psychological idea of a wise old man. ![]()
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