![]() ![]() Daisy can afford her lover only a fleeting glimpse of heaven. He represents humanity among the animals. Though he has a great desire to be like other people, he is incapable of conforming. Berenger is a petit bourgeois without ambition and without any special talent. What they have in common is the herd instinct. Botard is a Communist, Dudard an opportunist, Jean a conformist, Papillion a bureaucrat, and Daisy simply a nice girl. The others change with the times, following the current fashion, each for his own ends. ![]() He has slovenly habits, and gives no signs of unusual intelligence. Ionesco says, "Originally rhinoceritis was Nazism". The play ends on a heroic note but the implication is that there is not much hope for a human being in a world of beasts. Le Rhinoceros is the only play by Ionesco that makes an unequivocal statement. ![]()
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