The Joke

Main Ideas

• The theme of chance and its impact on a person's life.
• An exploration of the nature of power and its effect on the individual.
• The issue of alienation and loneliness in society.
• Irony and sarcasm as ways of perceiving reality.
• Questions of memory and oblivion, and their role in shaping identity.
• Critique of totalitarianism and ideological pressure.
• Love and its transformations under external circumstances.