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"I preferred to keep my madness. To live it out, fully aware
of what I was doing.
That prank is a reality, the reality of a true madness!
Your trouble is being mad without knowing it!" (Henry IV)
Pirandello's portray of madman has a very overwhelming effect: the words of the madmen are so relatable that it touches an unstable side of us and challenge us to doubt our own sanity and reasonings. II
"Among the many misfortunes we women must suffer, are the
gaze of two eyes promising eternal love. Such eyes made me laugh, especially
then. And yet I’ll admit…I can’t after so many years, that then I laughed out
of fear, because his eyes were very believable but dangerous. He was unlike the
others. Besides I was too young then, and a woman. I would have needed more
courage. And so I laughed at him too." (Henry IV)
From this monologue of Matilda, it explains why the world is such a cruel and incompatible world for Henry to dwell in. In the movie Enrico IV, his face of confusions of the sounding mocking laughters when he was whole-heartedly singing to his love Matilda really struck me of what a young man he was.
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