The antisocial plays of Cyrano de Bergerac and The Night of the Iguana Cyrano is clearly a better example of an antisocial play than The Night of the Iguana: No, that is only shown by the main characters and their relationships with each other, but more importantly, this is shown in the themes of these two plays. Shannon is undoubtedly an ideal character for an antisocial play: while Cyrano may be alienated from society, it is, in many ways, by his own choice. For example, he could gain a position at court thanks to his talent for poetry, but he chooses instead to follow his own conscience: "What would you have me do?" ...like a creeping vine on a tall tree, I creep upward? . .. No thanks!" Cyrano wants to make himself "admirable in all things", and he is: the most courageous fighter, the exemplary poet, the lover par excellence, an individualist moralist (he eats meat on Fridays, but hopes to go to heaven), the best writer, and the greatest thinker Shannon, on the other hand, is none of these things, he only likes teenage girls and is neither a poet nor a writer. a thinker and a moralist, but this only contributes to his isolation from society: his thoughts on God and morality alienate him from the church of which he is the pastor also controls his relationships: Ragueneau and. Le Bret always follows Cyrano's example when he deigns to tell them what to do; even Roxane could have been his if he had not been hampered by his sense of honor, Shannon, on the other hand, is shaken by it. different ways by the strongest characters in Iguana He seems to be in control of his relationship with Maxine, but in the end he acquiesces to her wishes. The only re......middle of paper......is that there is nothing left to believe. The emergence of many philosophies (such as existentialism, atheistic Satanism, objectivism, nihilism, and hedonism) that focus on despair or selfishness also reflects this. Antisocial plays, many of which we have in modern times, address the concepts of despair that these influential modern philosophies have in common. What is the way out of the despair that our society feels and that antisocial plays reflect? In a word: humanism. Humanism is a philosophy (usually atheistic) that considers the well-being of all people in the world as the highest ethical goal. As a species, we have placed our belief in deities and we have placed our belief in knowledge. Only confidence in ourselves can now save us from the self-destructive spiral into which antisocial games suggest our society has entered...