How does Harold Pinter portray absurdity in his play of The Caretaker?
Introduction
Through my studying of the part three works, one being The Outsider which was written by Albert Camus, translated by Joseph Laredo and published by Penguin Books in 1983, I was introduced to the theme of absurdism which dominates throughout the book. Camus invents a character or martyr whose simply does not conform to the normality of the society and will not pretend (“afterword”, The Outsider). Absurdism is one of the elements that is classified under a movement that was termed the theatre of the absurd by Martin Esslin and according to the Encarta Microsoft student 2009 the term theatre of the absurd represents a body of plays written originally in France during the Second World War and such plays utilize irrational situations and incongruous dialogue to express the obvious absurdity of man’s existence in which French writers like Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were unable to find the logical purpose for human life hence they used the term absurd for this inability (“Theater of the Absurd."[DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft …show more content…
Carissa Halston, a fiction writer, pointed out in her discussion about absurdism, absurdity and absurdist fiction that absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, while absurdism is referred to as the state of philosophically as the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity and the abasement of reason (“Absurdity vs. Absurdism vs. Absurdist Fiction.” Aforementionedproductions.com. 19 Feb. 2011. Web. 2 July
Introduction
Through my studying of the part three works, one being The Outsider which was written by Albert Camus, translated by Joseph Laredo and published by Penguin Books in 1983, I was introduced to the theme of absurdism which dominates throughout the book. Camus invents a character or martyr whose simply does not conform to the normality of the society and will not pretend (“afterword”, The Outsider). Absurdism is one of the elements that is classified under a movement that was termed the theatre of the absurd by Martin Esslin and according to the Encarta Microsoft student 2009 the term theatre of the absurd represents a body of plays written originally in France during the Second World War and such plays utilize irrational situations and incongruous dialogue to express the obvious absurdity of man’s existence in which French writers like Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were unable to find the logical purpose for human life hence they used the term absurd for this inability (“Theater of the Absurd."[DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft …show more content…
Carissa Halston, a fiction writer, pointed out in her discussion about absurdism, absurdity and absurdist fiction that absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, while absurdism is referred to as the state of philosophically as the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity and the abasement of reason (“Absurdity vs. Absurdism vs. Absurdist Fiction.” Aforementionedproductions.com. 19 Feb. 2011. Web. 2 July