Is Dario Fo Insane

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Throughout the play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo is a very interesting play written in 1970. The play is set in Milan, Italy in a police station after a man plummeted to his death out of a window, where a man is currently being questioned and this man leads to a whole myriad of sequences throughout the play. The main character of the play, the Maniac, is an intelligent and educated, documented psychopath who was in multiple institutions and had been acquitted of multiple crimes before the current crime he committed before he was introduced in the play. Inspector Bertozzo is the officer questioning the maniac for his most recent antics and gets outwitted multiple times by the Maniac and is even set up shortly after their meeting comes to an end. There are also a few Constables that appear …show more content…

When he showed the characters of the play his paperwork to show he was “insane”, one of the titles brought up for him was a forger. If he was able to act this well and forge documents, it is possible he forged all those other documents that he claimed were real and that he was insane just to get out of trouble for his criminal activity. At no point in the play can it actually be proven that he was mentally institutionalized besides paperwork, and being as smart as he is and a potential forger, it is completely possible that part is fake. All the time it would have taken to learn law from a mentally institutionalized patient would’ve been greater than any normal person to learn from someone who was clinically insane. Also understanding latin and knowledge of forensics, being a lecturer, is rather superior for an someone who was institutionalized 16 times as well for

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