John Guare is an American playwright who is the author of many popular works, one of them being, Six Degrees of Separation (Guare, 1990). The play sets in Manhattan, New York City. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge are both the protagonist of the play. The second main character is Paul. Paul is a schizophrenic and is also the antagonist of the play, who pretends to be the son of Sidney Poitier – an African American actor. This play accurately reflects and describes the search for the meaning in life.
Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on this planet can be connected to any other person on this planet through acquaintances by no more than six people. Sexual intercourse is an example of six degrees of separation. When two people have sex, contact…show more content… One may view it in terms of religion or not. The most basic meaning that many follow is that there’s no point living if you don’t live happy, and that’s what Paul tried to do. Paul tried to take money from others because he didn’t have money. He took money to survive, to live, and to be happy. In the end, Paul gets arrested and evidently, without actual detail, realizes that there was no point because in the end he gets arrested. It’s like building a sandcastle. You’ve just built a masterpiece, but in the end of the day, all sandcastles get washed away. After your sand castle gets washed away, you ask yourself, “What was the point of building that if it’s going to get washed away in the end?” I can relate my life to this situation in a way. In the beginning, you smoke, drink, and do drugs which makes you happy, but eventually, you die quicker, but it’s not a fast death. It’s a long death that deals with suffer and more suffer. In the end, you don’t even know why you started, and you regret it, and you see that there isn’t any point to why you started at all. Nevertheless, there are others that don’t regret what they do, even knowing that in the end it all doesn’t