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And this is where the blurring between reality and illusion takes place. The relevance of this to my study can also be supported by the fact that in literary drama there is the assumption of verisimilitude according to the rule of the three unities-the achievement of an illusion of reality in the audience of a stage play-requires that the action represented by a play approximate the actual conditions of the staging of the play,they imposed the requirement of the “unity of place” and the requirement of the unity of time.These of course are optional devices left at the playwright’s discretion.Stoppard however takes away these assumptions and replaces them with a contrasting rule the rule that there are no rules. The dichotomy between illusion and reality and the collapse of an imagined security of man’s reality is explored in a rather roundabout manner in the real inspector hound.Stoppard’s genius is evident in the way he rigs a structural farce rather intricate in design while avoiding the necessity for a truly substantial plot.It is perhaps the continual sway from a conventional plot and the blurring of distinction between the stageplay and the reader’s audience world that constitutes the actual plot of hound.įrom the beginning,we are introduced to a situation where there are two separate planes of existence,one being the audience which the two critics,”Moon” and “Birdboot” are a part of, and the world onstage revolving around Muldoon Manor.Stoppard evidently sets the demarcations between these separate realms as depicted by the incessant flow of chatter between Birdboot and Moon that do not interfere with the conversations and exchanges onstage in the initial stage.įor Moon and Birdboot,their conversation is within their reality and what goes on onstage is illusion.For the characters onstage,Mrs, Drudge, Cynthia, Simon, Felicity, Magnus and Hound their ongoings in Muldoon manor is their reality though it is the audience’s illusion.Parallel existentialism can only be defined present in this play if the two planes of existence occur separately,though parallel,independent of the other ,never the two shall meet.And it is so,until a certain point in time where there’s a kink in the flow of these two parallel lines of existence. In a universe suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a stranger.His is an irremediable exile…this divorce between man and his life,the actor and his setting,truly constitutes the feeling of absurdity…(Camus…myth of Sisyphus)…