On Tyranny

by

Timothy Snyder

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Eugène Ionesco Character Analysis

Eugène Ionesco was a renowned Romanian-French playwright who watched many friends and acquaintances gradually “slip away into the language of fascism” during World War II. He wrote the play Rhinoceros, in which such sympathizers turn into rhinoceroses, to point out how bizarre it is for people to start rejecting evidence and believing the lies that tyrants like Trump and Hitler tell them.
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Eugène Ionesco Character Timeline in On Tyranny

The timeline below shows where the character Eugène Ionesco appears in On Tyranny. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 10: Believe in truth.
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...the same way about Hitler: they supported him because of faith, not reason. The playwright Eugène Ionesco even wrote a play called Rhinoceros about this problem: he pointed out how strange it... (full context)