Aduh and the Zoo Story

Aduh and The Zoo Story

The similar of The Zoo Story by Edward Albee and Aduh by Putu Wijaya is both have the absurdity. The Zoo Story is a play in which you never get to hear the story of the zoo. That's absurd because it reflects how sometimes the world just doesn't make sense. According to the philosophy of absurdity, humans want to find value and meaning; they want to know what happened at the zoo. But the world frustrates them; it won't tell them about the zoo. This is why people, in general, are cranky and filled with despair. Or at least Jerry and Peter are. Yep, it's that kind of play. which tells about someone who is ill but there is no one in that place who helps her or him.

I find the difference between both story:

Social

The Zoo Story

One source of the awkwardness between Peter and Jerry is the vast difference in their life stories and their social class. While Peter enjoys a high salary and a stable family life, Jerry has no job and characterizes himself as a "permanent transient." This difference is not just a matter of how much money the men have; it affects everything from their philosophical viewpoints to the way they perceive the world. Because the men's lives up to this point have been so radically different, they do not share common experiences and thus have trouble understanding each other. That social class distinctions could facilitate the tragedy of this play is a tragedy unto itself.

ADUH – Putu Wijaya

In this story of aduh published in 1970’s which is some people in that era was poor, stupid and cannot think hard. So in this story when si sakit needs a help but people around her or him still think about the risk when they help him or her. In our society, it happens sometimes when people face someone who needs a help they think first before helping and sometimes people have bad prajudice first before helping, so some people still help with their bad prajudice and some people decide to let it. In this drama the characters choose to let ill person till he or she dies. And then when he or she dies, they can’t take care of him or her. In normal life maybe people who find ill person till dies will contact her or his family but in this drama one of people who find ill person even robs her or him. It describes that people take an advantage when another people in trouble. It also happents in our society sometimes so I think that the writer tries to critize our society through this drama.