The play is a 20 th Century drama that was first played in the 1920s in Italy during the ‘modern era’. In this essay, the writer explores various psychological aspects as depicted in the play’s mental and theatrical representations of the six characters. By depicting the play as a failure of artistic representation, Pirandello captures the imaginations of the audience and highlights the mental states of the time. The play brings to the fore the distinctions between reality and illusion, and art and life, among others. Its unconventional form, language, and evident plausibility motivate the audience, the actors, and the characters to participate in a psychotic experience (Ragusa 85). The play does not involve fiction rather, it recounts the ‘real’ lives of six characters as told by them on stage. Pirandello uses the play to tell his views about the separation of a person from the “self” and society. Pirandello achieves this by mixing reality and illusion.
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