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Woody Allen’s America and Americans in His Screenplays

In Woody Allen’s screenplays, Allen deals with various themes such as lust seduction. hate. blasphemy. illegitimacy. drugs, psychoeurosis. and almost all the allier sins. and psychopathic clements. He reveals and exposes through his characters some of the basic human problems without holding back any shame. His heros and heroines both suffer from “an hedonic” fevers. Anhedonia is Allen’s recurring theme of psychoanalysis in his work. Allen’s anhedonic characters suffer from the fear of marriage. Allen does not think that marriage will bring people closer together but only it makes them almost strangers because both of them (Ire trying to obtain the unattainable romantic love. Allen demonstrates in Annie Hall, man’s need to control and to reshape life. Allen uses art as a means of confronting man’s helplessness before time, lost, and death. Allen’s anhedonic characters are not completely in despair. they are so called modern existential heros. They are superior and try liard for tile better. but they suffer. They make some attempts to hard for the meaning of life. Allen’s drama is a domestic sort where the family is centered. From a traditional point of view on the family. Allen characters try to keep the tradition. possibly the Jewish tradition. Allen portraits a crumbling Jewish family, but it could be the indication of the decline of the modern world. Allen confronts with self, and his character’s do the same. The characters become prisoners of themselves. They are alienated. and sexually and emotionally inadequate. Allen’s characters reflect aspects of everyone’s life in the modern world, and especially America and Americans. In Bananas(1971) Allen shifts the focus from the hero to the world. “More precisely, the film depicts a lunatic world, a world gone bananas” (Yacowar 132). Allen satirizes America’s imperialist exploitation and cultural imperialism throughout the world. Allen himself is a mystery, and all his characters in his drama become his spokesmen. Douglas Brode begins his first sentence in his book on Allen. “Woody Allen is an enigma”(13). Allen’s “enigma” itself is an art. Allen’s art does not furnish with satisfying answers, if it does, it is not a true art. Art is life, and life is art. Foolish human beings like Allen’s an hedonic characters try to destroy art to reach for the impossible.