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- 1. Absurdity in To the Lighthouse, Waiting for Godot, Birthday party, Wasteland Namrataba Zala Semester: 3 Roll No.: 20 Enrollment No.: 2069108420170033 Batch: 2016-2018 Email Id : [email protected] S. B. Gardi Department of English Bhavnagar University
- 2. Meaning of Absurdity • 1. a. Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate: an absurd request. • b. Impossible to take seriously; silly: a character who goes through many absurd adventures. See Synonyms at foolish. • 2. Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe. • 3. The condition or state in which humans exist in an absurd universe, without meaning or purpose. • 4. Meaninglessness, nothingness.
- 3. Absurdity In “To The Lighthouse” • In to the lighthouse we can find series of scenes and find somehow connectivity but between that there are absurdity that seize our mind. • Woolf in this novel reflects absurdity which actually prevails in her personal life and that we can find in many of scenes. Absurdity is the main stream which binds everyone in novel. • We can find absurdity in relationship between characters we can feel that emptiness between them. They all live together but somehow cut off with each other.
- 4. Absurdity In “Waiting For Godot” • In Waiting for Godot, two derelicts are seen conversing in a repetitive, strangely fragmented dialogue that possesses an illusory, haunting effect, while they are waiting for Godot, a vague, never-defined being who will bring them some communication about — what? Salvation? Death? An impetus for living? A reason for dying? No one knows, and the safest thing to say is that the two are probably waiting for someone or something which will give them an impetus to continue living or, at least, something which will give meaning and direction to their lives.
- 5. Absurdity In “Wasteland” • The title itself suggested some absurd context, name “wasteland” have feeling of nothingness. Land of waste we can say this about title which shows absurd or weird meaning.
- 6. Absurdity In “The Birthday Party” • Life of Stanly (?) • Two stranger (?) • Where they take Stanly at the end ?
- 7. Reflection of Age over writing • Modernist Age after two wars, have some features like absurdity, stream of consciousness etc. • Reflection of age we can find in given texts they all have that features with it. • Common in all four is “Meaninglessness” which we can feel through out the work.
- 8. Work cited • https://www.thefreedictionary.com/absurdity • https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/wai ting-for-godot/critical-essays/samuel-beckett- and-the-theater-of-the-absurd