Waiting for Godot

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, there are three countries in total, and they all have same system of government which is oligarchy that only a few people controls the government. The story sets mainly in one of the countries, Oceania. People can be separated into three distinct types which are proles, outer party members and inner party members. 85 percent of the population are proles. Proles receive little educations and live in poverty. Therefore, they are ignorant, don’t pay attention to…

the Father of Modern Drama. Absurdism was the philosophical and literary doctrine that human beings live in essential isolation in a meaningless and irrational world. Also one of the prominent modern Playwrights is Samuel Beckett In his play waiting for godot which is a great example of the absurdity of life. The modernist form of prose began from the styles of writing popular in the mid-to-late 19th century. The nonsense books of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll were one influence.…

Outline 1- Definitions: a) The frustration of not achieving a goal and antagonistic and annoying actions like offenses, gashes and blusters are definitely led to anger. b) Unlike other aversive emotions such as grief and fear, which include suppression and retreat, Dagleish identifies anger as a negative emotion, but includes a positive approach. c) Cox and Harrison simply define the structure of anger as a multidimensional one with different influential and cognitive dimensions and various…

Mohan Rakesh was very socially aware, his characters show how aware he was of society and the way that people think and act in a particular situation. Four plays of Mohan Rakesh are being analyzed from the point of view of Social Consciousness, leading to the whole idea of Morality that really drives society. How the ‘boundaries’ of Morality keep the characters caught up in situations and states from where there is No Exit. Some characters are not even given a choice to leave, while some are,…

Mapping the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’ The myth of Sisyphus Nirmit Bhatnagar B.A(hons) English Vth Sem…

THEATRE OF THE ABSURD BY ALBERT CAMUS Background An existentialist philosopher Albert Camus, wrote an essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”. This essay was published in 1942. In this essay Camus described human existence and called it to be “without any purpose: absurd”. Other writers of that era related to his work and subscribed to his work. These writers than wrote their own thoughts on the subject and their writing were named as Theatre of Absurd. There was no such thing as an Absurdist crusade…