Rhinoceros Quotes

Rhinoceros
There are two main characters in this book, Berenger is the one Im gonna focus in, I think that he’s the romantic character and Jean is the modern one, as Gergen says, Berenger is a person that follows his heart and does whatever he believes is right and will benefit everybody, he worries about others and will put the common good before his own. On the other hand Jean is like the perfect character, or that’s what he wants everyone to think, smart, good dressed, with a lot of money but we will find out how he’s not really that great and ends up just like everyone else turning into a rhinoceros, he’s guilty, he’s not happy the way he is, he wants to change. But Berenger, even though everyone thinks he’s worthless, dirty, a drunk person, he knows what he wants, he loves himself, he’s happy, and he ends up as the only human survivor.

Berenger does never want to fight, everytime he’s in an argument he stops right away and let the other person win, for
Berenger kept his feelings to himself until Dudard turned into a rhinoceros and after this happened, he told Daisy that he was in love with her, she admitted she loved him to and they both fantasized with their future and how happy they were going to be. But this quickly changed when Daisy decided she wanted to become a rhinoceros and left Berenger’s side.

Berenger doesn’t turn in to a rhinoceros because he’s not afraid of what people think or say about him, he’s accepts and liked the way he is, he’s happy, he’s comfotable and he’s unique, he has nothing to be ashamed of, but everyone else, who have a modernist way of thinking, care too much of what other people’s opinion about them is and are constantly trying to be accepted into society, trying to be like everyone else, that’s the reason why they suffer the