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My presentation about Absurdities found in The Birthday Party.
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Topic: Absurdity in the Birthday Party
Name: Rabhadiya Vinod J.Semester: 3
Year: 2014-15Roll no: 32
Paper No: 9 The Modern Literature Email: [email protected]
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