Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

system inverting. valuesAssug an ubuique persona and balancing
precariously on a. monocycle PunchTrickster pedals blindly into an
unknown future fendingoff. unseen adversaries with an ineffectual
weapon. The sculpture is. aconcretisation of a state of d or an
existential 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 d 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 appearancethe. 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
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