Absurditas Naskah Drama "Pelajaran" Karya Eugene Ionesco

Abstract

This research aims to investigate absurdity in “Pelajaran” drama script written by Eugene Ionesco. “Pelajaran” belongs to the kind of absurd drama script since it breaks structure convention of common drama script. It is such unconventional kind of drama script which has no plot, unclear characterization, nihilism topics such metaphysical things, being isolate, rebellion, and death, also has irrational dialogue which only tells about unimportant things. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research which used hermeneutic methods contained of two reading methods such heuristic and hermeneutic. The theory of semiotic Riffaterre applied in analyzing the symbols constructed in the text which combined with the theory of drama absurd suggested by Martin Esslin used to find out the absurdity in the text. The result of the research shows that “Pelajaran” presents the absurdity of life such metaphysics, disconsolate, rebellion, and death. Those all things presented through absurdity of plot, characterization, and irrational dialogue.