![]() At the heart of this play, we see regular, everyday people turn into something monstrous. ![]() Ionesco's play is a grand metaphor for the Nazi takeover of Germany. These marks of individuality, Ionesco suggests, are essential to humanity. In watching Jean, Dudard, and Daisy join the rhinoceroses, the audience can perceive specific moments when they change attitude and lose their sense of moral responsibility and individual thought. He is unkempt from the beginning, which suggests that he follows his own rules. The essential difference between Berenger and everyone else is that he refuses to join the others he is not afraid to stand alone and continue fighting for what he believes is right. Perhaps the most important theme of the play, individuality drives the central anti-rhinoceros metaphor. ![]()
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