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- Title
N. F. SIMPSON AS AN ABSURD PLAYWRIGHT.
- Authors
Tallur, Basavaraj
- Abstract
The use of Absurdity in literature is a medium for writers to explore those fundamentals in the world that do not make sense. It examines questions of meaning and life and writers often use absurd themes, characters, or situations to question whether meaning or structure exists at all. Existentialism spaces a human being at the starting point of thought and emphasizes the confusion such an individual feels in theface of a meaningless and alone world. Separate from other individuals and alienated from the world itself a human being is left to wander alone and is much more susceptible to mass manipulation and government control. Existentialism places a human being at the starting point of thought and emphasizes the bewilderment such an individual feels in the face of a meaningless and lonely world. Separate from other individuals and alienated from the world itself, a human being is left to wander alone and is much more susceptible to mass manipulation and government control, Martin Esslin coined the term "The Theatre of the Absurd" in 1960. Esslin grouped these plays around the broad theme of the Absurd related to the way Albert Camus uses the term in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). The human beings are responsible for their own actions despite the prevailing uncertainty about right or wrong. Many have examined the plays such as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Pirandello 's Six Characters in Search for an Author and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead through an existential lens. Main quality of an existential work includes the existence of anti-heroes, unstable understanding of the past and unstable identities.
- Subjects
SIMPSON, N. F., 1919-2011; DRAMATISTS; EXISTENTIALISM; MEANINGLESSNESS (Philosophy); CAMUS, Albert, 1913-1960
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 3, p72
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article