Theatre of the Absurd

Multilevel sets, flashback device and role switching are the noted theatrical techniques of Dattani to juxtapose the past and the present effectively.The use of multi-level sets helps in connecting the past with present. “Mahesh Dattani’s plays are played out on multi-level sets where interior and exterior become one, and geographical locations collapse. In short, his settings are as fragmented as the families who inhabit them” (Dhawan and Pant 35). It is interesting to note the comments of John…

Oppositions in play ‛ Waiting for Godot’ ꞉ ‛ Waiting for Godot’ is considered as a masterpiece in world literature ∙ It is one of Beckett’s beautiful plays∙ This astonishing play has two acts ∙ This play refers to the ‛ Theater Of The Absurd’∙ The mission of this type of theater is to showed the audience what can happen when human existence has no meaning or purpose ∙ Samuel Beckett is one of the pioneers of showing the binary oppositions in his plays with his characters that…

Charaterisation, like in many stories that concern the people, is too loose and vague. There is really no central hero as the characters rise and fall due to the nature of the story. The characterization of the story is lost in the many preambles and side attractions of the intrigue of the narrative. Tropes on their part are signaled by the trademark strange sound effect for advertising purposes. Notable also as a trope is the montage gymick of how the diegetic manner of telling the story of…

The closest thing to tragic flaw for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is ignorance. What stops it from being so is the fact that never choose to ignorant and are constantly asking questions about themselves and how and why their world functions. Their inability to act is a tragedy in itself. Now that we have examined key features of Greek tragedy in relation to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, let's delve into the factors that make up an active character. Writer, Sharon Lawson, sums ups the…

In the play Endgame, written by Samuel Beckett, there is a particular passage that involves two harmless characters, Nagg and Nell, giggling over their sons’ sadness and woeful state of mind. When reproducing the dialogue between these two parents, this passage conveys how these two laugh and make fun of their own son while he sinks into depression. In addition, Nell, the mother, oddly compares suffering with happiness and positive feelings. Because, in her own way it is allowing her to escape…

King Lear and Waiting for Godot are plays that are very similar in a way that they have the same central concern of recognition within the plays. There are many different ways that the issue of recognition is shown; there is self-recognition, recognition by others and recognition of actions. Whilst these plays differ from each other in almost every other way, they do share this central concern. Recognition means the acknowledgement of the existence, validity or legality of something. The many…

There is evident constraint within the play Waiting for Godot, how far it is a play about the condition of constraint is a matter that raises some discussion. The play covers constraint in many ways, from the way is has been written and produced, the set and props to the internal world and its story. There is evident constraint portrayed by the characters which is amplifyed by the use of language and their interactions with each other. It is possible to go beyond the simple viewing of the play…

In the two plays Act Without words and Soul Gone Home the playwrights develop the theme of their play in uncommon way. They try to send their play’s message by making the readers think deeply and by making him imagine what they are reading. The words do not have the importance of actions and symbols in these plays. Moreover, they show the area when the people begin losing their trust in God. They give up trying to face the struggle and to have the courage to develop themselves and their life.…

ASIF CURRIMBHOY’S USE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE Adapting language to suit situation and character in a play is a peculiar problem that the Indian dramatist in English invariably faces. And this problem could be tackled successfully if the dramatist adapts the English language to reflect the idiom of the language of the characters or, as K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar has rightly suggested, if “the characters and the situations are carefully chosen (Iyengar).” Currimbhoy does not seem to make any effort to…

Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is an absurdist French play that delves further and further into chaos as the show progresses. Throughout, the scenic elements work to create an unrealistic, chaotic, but unified atmosphere that serves to contribute to the absurd nature of a show where humans are turning into rhinoceros. The set itself is relatively minimalistic throughout- almost entirely rectilinear in form, while the only contrasting curved lines in set were various clothes lines featured in act…