![]() ![]() A parable about French collaboration with the Nazis, Rhinocéros serves as a metaphor for people resisting the crowd and standing up for their own ideas. Berenger, on the other hand, transforms from being indifferent and aimless to a having something to believe in and fight against: the tyranny of the rhinos. The square is soon overrun as people in the town begin to transform into rhinos. A rhinoceros runs through the square, shocking all except Berenger. Rhinocéros begins in a small town square where Jean meets his apathetic friend Berenger for a drink. ![]() Alongside Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Harold Pinter, Ionesco was a major figure of the “Theater of the Absurd.” Rhinocéros was initially a short story written in 1957 by Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), who was influenced by his time in Romania as a young man when nearly everyone around him converted to fascism. ![]()
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