Name: Maru Riddhi

Paper: 9 The Modernist literature

Roll No: 21

Class: M.A.Sem.3

Year: 2016-2018

Emil Id: riddhimaru27@gmail.com

Submitted To: M.K.Bhavnagar University,

Department of English

0. Born : 10th October, 19300. Profession : play writer, Screenwriter, Actor, Theater director, Poet 0. Nationality : British 0. Nobel Prize winner in 20050. His most Famous works : No man’s Land, The Birthday Party, Betrayal,0. His career being with the play,

“The Room “0.Died : 24th December, 2008

0.It means the expression in art of the meaninglessness of human existence.

0.‘Theatre of Absurd’ is a term or particular movement started in Iate 1950.

0.Worid is without meaning and life is without purpose.

0.Associated with Existentialism.0.Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Tom Stoppard,

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Harold Pinter etc……

Critic Martin Esslincoined the term“

Theatre of the Absurd”in his 1960 essay and, later, a book of the same name. He related

these plays based on a broad theme of the

Absard.

No Beginning

No End No Middle

Broad Comedy

menacing and tragic effect

Alienation effect

Hoplessness in Characters

Fragmentations

Parody of concept of “ well maid play”

Unconventional writing

Irrationality

Mainly it is found in the characters of Meg, Stanley and Lulu.

“Meg: Stan! I'm coming up to fetch you if you don't come down! I'm coming up! I'm going to count three! One! Two! Three! I'm coming to get you! (She exits and goes upstairs. In a moment, shouts from STANLEY, wild laughter from MEG)”

“Meg: What are the cornflakes like, stanley? Stanley: Horrible.” Broad Comedy

0 .Frightening effect we find very much as it is “Comedy of Menace”

also.

0. In movie background sounds play vital role for it.

0. In movie we have many dialogues and scenes such as Blindmen’sBuff scene( Menace) and Interrogation scene (tragic element).

0. Very much use of screaming and shouting in the play.

Menacing and tragic effect

Life under the Constant

Shadow of Fear and Menace

0.In almost every character we find a kind of disappointment and complain from life.

0. Meg keeps on running meaningless conversations like “how is cornflakes ?” or “didn’t you enjoy your breakfast ?”etc. It is perhaps to fill the emptiness within her.

0.And Petey’s indifferent silence.

0. Lulu’s frustration comes out when the dialogue between her and Goldberg occurs. Hopelessness and fragmentation in characters.

Ambiguity and Mystery

Ambiguity and Mystery Stanley’s

pastis so Mysterious

Goldberg and McCann way of asking questions to Stanley

Kafka’s work intensifies the dreadful angst experienced by the protagonist