A Study On Aesthetic Character Of Dramas Written By Albert Camus

As a famous French litterateur, Albert Camus's dramas always get people's attention. His dramas express his own philosophy and make readers get special aesthetic feelings. They inherit those characters of classic tragedies and show their new aspects. There have drastic conflicts in his dramas and both sides of conflicts have their reasons which make them can not come to terms. The dramas often ended by the ruining of one side. In his representative theater Caligula, this conflict is showed as the confliction between the role and the absurd world, which lead to the tragic ending. Dramatis personae created by Camus have many same characteristic with those classic tragic heroes. And we can associate them together easily. These characters have these specialties including: 1, persuiting freedom and try their best to fight; 2, accepting those inevitable endings; 3, having historic confusion and characteristic everlasting. As the absurdity, which is focused by observers, actually reflect and witness the tragic aesthetic aspect of Camus's dramas. In fact absurdity is just a transformer of unresisting destiny that always in people's minds from ancient age to now. Camus's works present the powerful absurdity and rebelling for it. It is the rebelling which must be fail that express the spirits of classic tragedy.