Les Aveugles

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Les Aveugles is a symbolist one-act play by Maurice Maeterlinck that portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest, exploring themes of fate, uncertainty, and human helplessness.

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instanceOf one-act play
play
symbolist play
author Maurice Maeterlinck
countryOfOrigin Belgium
dramaticConflict inability to act
loss of guide
dramaticForm static drama
dramaticTechnique atmospheric tension
minimal action
offstage events
symbolic setting
explores dependence on spiritual guidance
fear of the unknown
human condition
firstPublicationYear 1890
genre Symbolism
drama
hasCharacterType old blind man
old blind woman
priest (absent or dead guide)
various blind men and women
hasForm dialogue-driven
hasTranslation The Blind
influenced 20th-century avant-garde theatre
influencedBy symbolist aesthetics
literaryMovement Symbolism
literaryPeriod fin de siècle
mainCharacters group of blind people
movement Symbolist theatre
narrativePerspective third-person stage directions
notableFor absence of conventional plot resolution
emphasis on mood over action
numberOfActs 1
originalLanguage French
partOf Maurice Maeterlinck dramatic works
setting forest
structure choral dialogue
symbolism blindness as spiritual blindness
darkness as ignorance
forest as metaphysical uncertainty
theme death
existential anxiety
fate
human helplessness
isolation
religious doubt
uncertainty

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Maurice Maeterlinck notableWork Les Aveugles
Le Trésor des humbles hasPart Les Aveugles