Six Characters in Search of an Author | The Role of Uncertainty
In this essay, Nienhuis discusses the role that uncertainty plays in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Pirandellian themes like the relativity of truth, the constantly changing nature of personal identity, or the difficulty of distinguishing between reality and illusion or between sanity and madness all have a common thread—they all point to uncertainty as a significant part of human experience. As John Gassner has observed, Pirandello was consistently "expressing a conviction that nothing in life is certain except its uncertainty.''
In Six Characters in Search of an Author uncertainty begins with the introduction of the "characters." The claim they make about...
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