had to read this for my English class and I am so glad I did, Not only did I understand it, but it was broken down so well I was blown away, This is a play about two men, it has underlying tones of homosexuality, loneliness, unhappiness and that's just to name a few things, It is short but so very powerful, I would recommend this play and suggest you read it with someone and have a discussion on it, It's interesting to see everyone's take on this, وقتی پسربچهای از خیالپردازی به عنوان جانشینی برای تجربه واقعی استفاده میکنی و وقتی بزرگتر شدی از تجربه واقعی به عنوان جانشینی برای خیالپردازی. Sadecedakikalik bir anlatimi olan hikaye beklentimin altinda kaldi diyebilirim, Belki ilerde oyun olarak izlerim sanki bir
eksiklik var gibi turkceye cevirim yapanlara her zaman biraz kuskuyla yaklasiyorum, ne mutlu orginalinde okuyabilenlere. Gecmis deki cevirmenler gibilerini bulmak zor oluyor, Simdide var iyi ceviri yapanlar ama her yayin evi ile calismiyorlar ne yazik ki, Biraz agresiv bir anlatim di konu olarak dedigim gibi eksiklik hissettim anlatimda, "Under a spell" is the best way to describe what it was like to read Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, There aren't many playwrights out there as good as Edward Albee,
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out ofto sitelinkThe Zoo Story, written inby sitelinkEdward Albee, If you haven't read this story, you've missed out on something intense and truly spellbinding, It's a classic American play staged on Broadway and other places, but so few have probably read it these days, The story is amazing and not what what anyone would expect from the title, of even in general, Two men sit on a bench in Central Park, Uppity business man taking a break from his day, A man approaches, appears a bit like a vagabond, He wants to talk. The business man wants to ignore him, The vagabond asks useless and painful questions, The business man wants to walk away, but the vagabond tickles him, A fight ensues. Something bad happens. One man runs away. The other reflects on what he's learned,
What a commentary on society, Forget age, gender, race or class, It's a story about how different personalities handle conflict or friendship, Do you get close or stay distant Do you listen or talk Do you ignore or immerse And when something bad happens, what kind of character do you have Do you stay or go Do you deny or admit All the choices we make in life.
Wrapped up into a little old play so many of us haven't actually read or seen,
So what are you waiting for Sure, it's not a suspense novel which I love, It's a not a pageturning thriller which I love, But the dialog is on point, And it should be read, So go now.
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For me, a great example of Don't Talk to Strangers in Public Because They Probably Are Bananas, I had to read this play for my Drama class this semester,
I think this play is going to be my favorite, If you would ask me if I was going to like absurd theatre, I probably would have thought no, though I wouldn't have actually said it before reading it.
LOL. I've been going to a few plays in the last couple of weeks and I would love to experience an absurd play in the theatre, Preferably, this one!
We have two characters on a nice day in New York's Central Park, And Jerry randomly is going to tell a random guy at the bench about what happened during his zoo visit, That's how it starts anyways, I'm not going to go into much detail because the play itself is quite short, so go read it! I loved both characters, I could see a little bit of myself in both of them.
One has fit in, in this society, living life by the rules, Not poking in life's mysteries and meaning and why there is marriage and why people have to buy houses and cars etc, And Jerry, is exactly the opposite,
Now there are many interpretations on their relation to each other, And something interesting is going on in the play with the number two, And yes, one can talk three hours on a short, one act play like this one and still feel the need to talk more because somehow you are not satisfied and want to dig deeper and talk more about how these two can be doppelgänger and etc etc etc etc.
You know what I mean Please, do,
Anyway, the ending was good, I liked it. And one can find many different interpretations on the ending too, I really feel for Jerry, I really loved him as a character, And I can see how people think that they are both the same person, And I'm becoming one of them too, Because it really is a character I think a lot of people have in them, But it's better to shut Jerry out because that's how we can survive in this society, Yay!!
So, anyways, what happened at the zoo
Still shocked, Best written play. Jerry is phenomenal
Lu pour la fac, Une pièce assez perturbante et surtout courte, Je pense que pour vraiment la comprendre il faudrait au moins la lire deux fois, . I'm sure that one can read this play in any number of ways, I choose to see Peter and Jerry as doppelgängersthe former living a life we are all conditioned to think is normal/successful, while the latter lives a life of lonely isolation.
Jerry expresses a deep fear underlying the mask of respectability structuring Peter's lifethe fear that Peter's life might indeed be more of a "zoo" than he cares to admit.
Their meeting represents Peter's encounter with himselfone he resists due to the horrifying possibility of selfknowledge, To me, the ending suggests not that Peter escapes or destroys Jerry, but that Jerry transfers or merges his reality with Peter, who is forever changed by an encounter that, in the words of Werner Herzog, melts away the thin layer of civilization that crystalizes like ice over a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
We are all animals, Ladies and gentlemen, I have found the king of my absurd, . .
A violent philosophical statement about the impotent alienation of young men and the raging bulls of the absurd, The Zoo Story is Camus on speed, Beckett on shock therapy, and Kafka bingeeating American cheeseburgers with some sort of curious, fixed grin on his lucid, logical face.
The Zoo Story is Edward Albee wearing some sort of smashmouth tiara, draped in a Japanese kimono, and plucking his eyebrows fiercely in a shattered glittering mirror.
The Zoo Story is about Sisyphus as the postmodern idiotsavant, The Zoo Story is beyond masterful, Albee's early play is beyond even words, The Zoo Story simply is, . . One of my favorite plays of all time, No one writes loneliness better than Edward Albee, The underlying themes of alienation, sexual identity, belonging all culminates to an ending that neither of the two characters see it coming, Albee works around symbolism and an undercurrent of stagnation that people end up in during their lifetimes, An excellent play that plays out exactly how its written and its interpretation lies in its words than in setting, A breathtaking piece full of imagination, realism, and insanity, Dunno what to say! I'm still shocked, . . Succinct but surreal, The Zoo Story stages a lurid confrontation between two strangers, after the mens attempt at communication and understanding goes awry, Albees oneact debut takes place within the boundaries of a single section of a public park, nearby a bench that centers the action of the drama its dialogue is suggestive and evasive rather than clear and direct, and the characters, though certainly not everymans, read as social types.
Subtext swirls underneath the surface of the play as the characters converse about this and that, Only at one point, when one of the men literally spells out that he was a homosexual for ten days, does the play almost make explicit that which it repeatedly impliesthe audience is watching a seduction.
When the cleancut character starts to back away from the encounter, though, the play takes a violent turn that ends in the stabbing of the selfdescribed former homosexual, this is being placed on my favorites shelf just b/c it's the first play i've ever read by myself not for school, so it deserves a special place in my heart.
it's also just fucking wild dude what the hell, goddamn, albee. but i enjoyed it more than i thought i would, given that this is like myth attempt at reading a play by myself and the first four all failed sitelink
Highly recommended
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SPOILER ALERT REVIEW ! . .
Genre:
Theatre of the Absurd
"The Zoo Story", a play in which there is no zoo! It depicts a world which doesnt make a sense.
Human beings always want to find a meaning for their lives, They all want to know what happened at the zoo, but they soon will understand the absurdity of their lives and will get disappointed, This is the theatre of the absurd!
The Title
As Jerry tells Peter in the story:Youre an animal too, ''" , it shows a side of human which is not controlled by himself, It is the animal part of human beings, Its like that we all live in a zoo all together, Jerry fights with the dog just like he fights with other people, He communicates with the dog as well as he tries to communicate with Peter,
"If you can't deal with people, you have to make a start somewhere, With animals!"
This part of the play made me think about zoophilism but as the story goes on the main ideas and the key themes will be gradually revealed.
Themes:
Isolation, loneliness, miscommunication, intimacy, Sexual Identity, homosexualism, social class, and absurdism
Intimacy is not just about friendship it requires a fundamental sense of understanding and compassion between two people.
This kind of intimacy does not necessarily need to be accumulated over time, Albee believes that it can be achieved simply by approaching a stranger like Peter and getting know somebody,
many critics interpret the play as an allegory about the repression of taboo sexual desires, Albee himself is a gay, and critics consider Jerry's loneliness and desperate fumbling for intimacy with a male stranger to be representative of the gay male experience in, There are also erotic undertones to Peter and Jerry's interaction, even when sex is not being discussed explicitly, For example, many critics have pointed out the phallic resonance of Jerry's death, which occurs through a knifewound in the abdomen,
This phallic symbol at the end, refers to Freud ideas and by considering his ideas you can say The knife that Peter wields and Jerry falls upon can be seen as a symbol of a penis.
The use of the knife isn't just about potency, though, It's also about sex. Jerry tells Peter he's a homosexual, And tickling Peter, can be seen as a kind of courtship or love affair, In some ways, the last scene makes more sense as sex than as murder, Jerry is, after all, happy after he's stabbed, and feels that he's connected with Peter in a new and wonderful way, Peter is horrified. But he might well be horrified after sex too, since he's married and thinks of himself as heterosexual,
Symbolism:
Knife : phallic symbol
Bench: There is only one thing on the stage, and that's the bench, Peter who has a good job and a lovable family, enjoys his life happily,
"I sit on this bench almost every Sunday afternoon, in good weather, It's secluded here there's never anyone sitting here, so I have it all to myself, "
And when Jerry says: "You have everything, and now you want this bench, Are these the things men fight for"
The bench is a symbol of pride and all thing one has, If they can take your bench, what will they take next Your pets Your home, your spouse, your job
Dog: The dog attacks Jerry, Jerry tries to poison him.
It's a black monster. It symbolizes some sort of existential about the horror of humanity and the cruelty of life,
Zoo:
The zoo symbolizes the fact that the zoo is not the zoo, That's how the Theater of the Absurd rolls,
The day is nice, the sun is warm,all is well with the world, The setting is meant to be all nice and quiet and comfortable to contrast with the dirty, messy unpleasantness and absurdity of existence,
Climax Turning Point
The big, climactic, exciting moment of no return occurs late in the play, when Jerry tries to put Peter off the bench.
Worse leads to worse, and Jerry ends up killing himself, That's really the only point where you could say anything actually happens, actionwise, It is sudden and final, though,
Ending:
At the end of the story, Peter screams ''Oh my God'', And then Jerry imitates him, "OhmyGod," and then he dies,
It's so IRONIC here! You see that as Jerry mocking Peter and making fun of his meaningless references to a religion he probably doesn't really believe, The story is not a religious sort of play, The zoo is a place against the idea of holly God who is said to be faultless,
"JERRY: His eyes still closed, he shakes his head and speak a conbination of scornful
mimicry and supplication Oh, . . my God. He is dead. "
this last lines of the play, shows that how Jerry wanted to be like Peter but he couldn't make it work, And he died at last after his absurd life,
Sources: the Zoo Story by Edward Albee The zoo story analysis via Shmoop, com
. Theatre of the absurd by Martin Esslin The zoo story by Edward Albee via gradesaver, com
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