Essay - The Picnic on the Battlefield, Written by Fernando Arrabal, is...

The Picnic on the Battlefield, written by Fernando Arrabal, is a humorous play depicting war in a silly and amus*****g manner. The play depicts a soldier named Zapo who, by character and personality, does not suit and belong to fighting against enemies in war. ***** author illustrated ***** war as ***** through the different humorous events of ***** in the battlefield, as well as of other characters.

***** ***** an innocent soldier of war. He is so na ve that he ***** not even know how to use gre*****des. His character made it funnier when he w***** joined ***** his parents in the middle of the ***** to lecture ********** guide him with *****structions. Zapo was ***** silly in the play. Imagine a soldier who gets advice from ***** parents on ***** "do's" and "don'ts" of war. One funny incident ***** when Zapo was scolded by his parents when he hurt his prisoner. An***** ***** w*****n Zapo poses for a pho*****graph, with ***** foot on a prisoner, just to s***** off hi***** experience in the cruelty of w*****r.

The other characters such as the stretcher-bearers were illustrated with humorous events in the war. In a real war, a stretcher-bearer would always wish that he will find few or no casualties at all in the battlefield. However, in ***** st*****y, the stretcher-bearers are ***** because *****y hope for many *****. They worry that their Captain will reprimand them should they bring no corpse or no *****s injured upon their return.

The play has made the characters oblivious of what a ***** war is, making ********** portray funny situations. From the characters' innocence and unmindful personalities, the ***** succeeded in depict*****g a silly