Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

predicament. It. isconcerned with delusions of grandeur and
vulnerability paradox. andpathos.The Trickster as buffoon acts out a
quixotic farce in ironic. fashion.Ubu Roi a precursor of the theater of
cruelty the absurd.. PunchUbuPuncheon. Pernille og Mr. NelsonJUDY
Where's the babyPUNCH (In a. melancholy tone.) I have had a
misfortune the child wasso terrible cross I. throwed it out of the
window.It is generally thought that the obsession with. survival is a
logicalconsequence of life and the right to life. But most of. the time
thetwo things are contradictory. Life is not a question of. rights
andwhat follows on from life is not survival which is artificial.
butdeath. It is only by paying the price of a failure to live a failureto.
take pleasure a failure to die that man is assured of survival.Punch's
women. performers Bearing in mind that Mr Punch is a folkherorogue
scoundrel. trickster of the opposite sex from ourselveswhy are we so
keen to portray. his story And what might the womenProfessors add to
the drama of the. traditionThe traditional Punch and Judy show presents
Punch as the. simpletonhero who successfully outwits various
characters representing. hisoppressions in order to gain his freedom.
This 'clever fool' type isoften. portrayed as a male antihero in folklore
(Jack TilEulenspiegel. Clever Hans Monkey Anansi and Brer Rabbit
are someexamples). Somehow he. always manages to achieve through
his stupiditywhat others fail to achieve. by concentrated effort. Punch is
acombination of the fool and trickster.. His characteristics are
acollection of the archetypal shadow masculine traits. those which
aresocially deemed to be undesirable cowardice lewdness.
rudenessstupidity fickleness irresponsibility selfishness. greed................
and violence or cunningMr Punch the trickster carnival. fool king of
anarchy is an absurdmasculine archetype of those aspects of the. human
psyche that want toturn the world upside down and create chaos. His.
gross appearance the bulbous hooked red nose and the phallic 'hump'
on his. backcomically reinforce his male sexuality along with the big.
redslapstick which he wields as the answer to all his troubles..
Hischaracter and appearance have their roots in the ancient.
ritualdramas celebrating birth death resurrection conflict. andfertility. In
our 'civilised' hierarchical bureaucratic. andpatriarchal society Mr
Punch has evolved and survived through. thecenturies as our national
'Lord of Misrule.'Punch men often portray Judy as. a wonderfully
fussy bossy pantomimedame type with a high falsetto voice.. (Note that
this makes thecharacter a parody of the male's fantasy of woman)..
When knocked down she bobs up again several times in comic
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