Essays on Absurdism

Introduction to Art and Aestheticism

Art is defined as the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, especially through visual medium like painting, sculpture, illustration or any kind of performing art as well. Art is non evaluative term. It means that no one could say whether it is good or bad. Instead the focus of the critics should be on interpretation and assessment. The term aesthetics is related to the beauty of art. Berleant (1992) calls art as a product of human relationship. The contextual phenomena of aesthetics changed in course of time and according to the contemporary situations. The modern aesthetic was ...

Absurdism as a worldview theory is a part of the philosophy of existentialism; and as the fundamental philosophical concept it was firstly developed in the work of Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”. As a system of philosophical views, it claims the lack of meaning of human life (the absurdity of life existence). According to the absurdism, people have been trying to find the meaning of existence throughout their history. Traditionally, these attempts have ended in one of two ways: man has come to the conclusion that all life is senseless or he has started to understand that everything is predetermined by ...

1. Waiting for Godot follows Absurdist principles of setting and plotting. While some other characters present themselves and interact with Vladimir and Estragon, the entire purpose of the play is to convey a series of events in which nothing of consequence happens. he setting is never clearly defined, and the inherent silliness and nonsensical nature of what is happening and who the characters are is taken at face value. In real life, two people would not be waiting for an unknown figure and eventually kill themselves in an unidentifiable void; the fact that these extremes of the way reality is ...

In the previous chapter we have shown how the alienation pervades both of the plays thematically. The present chapter concerns with the stylistic devices which are used by Arthur Miller and Samuel Beckett to support the thematic preoccupation. Since we are concerned with the study of drama, we judge important to include an examination of the stagecraft; that is to say the technical aspects of the two plays. The most important point to insist on is that Death of a Salesman and Waiting for Godot belong to two different, if not opposed, theatrical movements - Realism and Absurdism, respectively. As a ...

While the medical description of death as a cessation of bodily functions that sustain life is rather simple, religious and philosophical traditions have extended their efforts to describe and experience the nature of death as a physical and spiritual event. All cultures in the world have been fascinated with the nature of death, and each culture has developed a set of beliefs related to death’s connection with life, its connection to the soul’s transition into the afterlife, and some religions have proposed the theory of reincarnation that considers death as a temporary event before the soul’s next birth in the ...