The Chaplain, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Chaplain, Vol. 17

Each Of these forms of deception carries its own peculiar problem. For a man may deny to himself the self that he is, but he cannot deny that he is a self; he may hide his real self from others, but he knows that he must present some self to them; he may shut his eyes to the real world, but he is forced to admit that there is a world. In a sense he rejects the creation, including hisown creaturehood, and settles down to play God. Inasmuch as J ahweh botched the creation, man will re create, and this time not out of nothing, but out of a diseased and frightened imagination. He will create the self which greets him in the privacy of his morning ablu tions, the self which ventures forth preparing a face to meet the faces that [it] and the selves which are the other faces.

Three contemporary dramatists who have admirably presented man's misguided struggle to fashion his own world are Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and T. S. Eliot. Each has presented the problem in his own way; and each has resolved the problem - or left it unresolved - in his own way.

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