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E-C- 301, The Modernist Literature
By- Payal Patel
M.A.Sem-III
Roll No- 16
Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar
2011-12
Theme of Absurdity in ‘‘The Birthday Party’’
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World War-II. Existential Philosophy. The collapse of moral, religious, political and social
structures in the twentieth century. The primary aim- to point out the absurdity of life.
Theater of Absurd:
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“Cut off from his religious, metaphysical, and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.” Eugène Ionesco.
A "tragic farce," - the events are often
simultaneously comic, horrifying, and absurd.
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• Goldberg: What have you done with your wife?
McCann: He’s killed his wife!
Goldberg: Why did you kill your wife?
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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]
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Quick fire sequences of dialogue:
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• Goldberg: Mr. Webber, sit down.
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Goldberg: McCann.
McCann: Nat?
Goldberg: Ask him to sit down.
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McCann: He won’t sit down.
Goldberg: Ask him again.
McCann: Sit down. [Act-II]
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•I would like to thank Dr. Dilip Barad and the Department of English (Bhavnagar University) for providing such an enthusiastic atmosphere with great sum of support.
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Acknowledgement :
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