Absurdity in the "Birthday Party"

Topic: Absurdity in the Birthday Party

Name: Rabhadiya Vinod J.Semester: 3

Year: 2014-15Roll no: 32

Paper No: 9 The Modern Literature Email: vjrabhadiya@gmail.com

Submitted To: S.B. Gardi

Dept of English M.K.University Bhavnagar

Our Vision and celebration of Birthday Party

“The condition of state in which human exist in a meaningless

irrational universe where in people’s live

have no purpose or meaning .

What is Absurd ?

The Absurd Theatre

The Myth

of Sisyphus

Waiting For

Godot

Examples of Absurdity

Ambiguity and Mystery

•Goldberg: What have you done with your wife? McCann: He’s killed his wife! Goldberg: Why did you kill your wife? Goldberg: Why did you never get married?

•Goldberg: Why did you change your name? Stanley: I forgot the other one. Goldberg: What’s your name now? Stanley: Joe Soap. [Act-II]

Disjoined and fragmented dialogs

GB: why did you come here?”

Stanley: my feet hurt!!!

GB:where did you stay?

Disjoined and fragmented dialogs

•Goldberg: Mr. Webber, sit down. Goldberg: McCann. McCann: Nat? Goldberg: Ask him to sit down.

McCann: He won’t sit down. Goldberg: Ask him again. McCann: Sit down. [Act-II]

Disjoined and fragmented dialogs

silence And pause

Knocking of the

Door

Knocking is

threatening

Beating Drum by Stanley

The room or House

Shifting Identities: Contradictions : Identities remains unclear

Goldberg

Dermot ( In talking with Petey)

Semus (In talking with McCann)

“Falsehoods are important for Pinter’s dialogue, not least when they can be detected only by careful reference from one scene to another…. Some of the more blatant lies are so casually delivered that the audience is encouraged to look for more than is going to be disclosed. This is a part of Pinter’s two-pronged tactic of awakening the audience desire for verification and repeatedly disappointing this desire”

Russell Brown