| dc.description.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. | en_US |
