Word: andromacheã
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...personal sufferings. The eerie presence of dolls furthers this surreal effect. The play flirts shamelessly with the line between doll and human, one that it figures as flexible and thin. Lotte, for example, treats her doll “patients” as though they are real people, and Andromache??s beloved “son” is a large doll. It is interesting that Lotte first recognizes Andromache??s son as a doll but later treats it as a real person. Lotte’s (and the audience’s) intuitive failure...
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