The Adding Machine에 나타난 지적 가벼움의 패러디 = Parody of Intellectual Lightness in The Adding Machine

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis studies how light man's consciousness and mind are in the modern society, and how he/she has been completely organized by the fast changing rules of modern civilization based on only economic and materialistic profits.
Elmer Rice, in his famous expressionistic drama of The Adding Machine, points out such a serious problem that human beings try to comply with their organizations not only to take success opportunities but also to survive themselves in the actual world. Rice uses various expressionistic techniques that Strindberg and O'Neill enjoyed doing to emphasize man's existential dangerous situation depreciated by machine.
It is remarkable that Rice, like Swift and Rabelais, suggests the revival of man's free will and unlimited imagination as the methods to resolve human spiritual paralysis.