Hilux Tow Horse Float

A tale of Sicilian setting

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In questa novella, Pirandello concentrala propria attenzione su Ciàula, un personaggio sfruttato emaltrattato, lui vittima di un ambiente sociale primitivo eingiusto, dove chi è povero deve sottostare a un padrone cheha il «diritto» di trattarlo come una bestia. Se poi èanche "Different" by others as Ciaula, subiscequotidianamente oppression and wickedness even by his fellow difatica. But is its "diversity" arenda unique absolute innocence that allows him to wonder provarela unlimited spettacolodella a child in front of the white moon in the night sky. He had never vistaprima, because coming out of the sulfur mine, difatica drunk, again in broad daylight. But when the Moon is the rivelaall'improvviso, beautiful as a goddess, for she did not try a pack puòche sweet adoration.

The novel is divided into three stages. The first takes place in broad daylight, outside the cave, and present the rebellion of workers, who refuse to work overtime, the stage is crowded by all the pickmen noisily leaving the quarry Cacciagallina ignoring the threats of the above. He then ends to force to do the job the only employee left, the old zi 'Scarda, which in turn imposes its Ciaula Caruso, a poor fool. In this first stage dominates the direct discourse, which emphasizes moments of uproar and excitement, the kind of realistic description of the environment is modeled on Verga, with precise use of technical terms (pickmen, above), jargon and slang (Limestone, calcherone, Caruso), and popular expressions and syntactically near the Parliament.
The second time, after leaving the scene of pickmen takes place within the quarry and is occupied by the description of zi 'Scarda of his habit of tears, her relationship with Ciaula, which provides the essential information. At this stage there is less direct speech and the external description of the characters are flanked by considerations of a psychological nature, with adoption of the viewpoint of the character.
the third time, the most important, the center of interest is only Ciaula, with his fear first and then his amazement when he discovered the moon. The description is kind of inner, psychological, through point of view Ciaula same, the movement of the hero proceeds from the quarry, from darkness to light, from bottom to top, and spatially and morally. The initial impression gives way completely realistic description, the interest is mainly focused on the mood of the character, only with himself in front of the moon.

Pirandello, in contrast to Verga, focuses more on analysis of the interior of the individual and brings to light the alienation that the protagonist is subject to: Ciaula seems to know and have no perception of the world outside the cave . His life and his ego is completely esuri at work and in mine, and his humanity denied both individually (he does not speak, gives only the direction of the crow, hence his nickname) and social (the others laugh at him because the lower and demented). Ciaula comes to the discovery of self and the world only with the epiphanic vision of the moon, which contrasts with the outside world to that of the quarry and work, where the darkness is revealed but not any more reassuring, as the protagonist was led to believe by the mere knowledge of that reality, but total and suffocating.