Absurdity

                    The term absurdity is loosely applied to those dramatists and the production of those works which shred a pessimistic vision of humanity struggling vainly to find a purpose and to control its fate. Humankind in this view is left feeling hopeless, bewildered and anxious. The absurdists playwrights like Samuel Beckett, Eugene Lonesco, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter, therefore, did away with most of the logical structures of traditional theater. In Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" plot is eliminated, and a timeless, circular quality emerges as two lost creatures, usually played as tramps, spend their days waiting- but without any certainty of whom they are waiting for or of whether he, or it, will ever come.
                    Language in an absurdists play is often dislocated, full of cliches, pun, repetitions, and non sequiturs. The rediculous, purposeless behavior and talk give the plays a sometimes dazzling comic surface, but there is an underlying serious message of metaphysical distress. Originally shocking in its flouting of theatrical conventions while popular for its apt expression of the preoccupations of the mid 20th century. The Theater of the Absurd  declined somewhat by the mid 1960s; some of its innovations had been absorbed into the mainstream of absurd. Some of the chief authors of the absurd have sought new directions in their art, while others continue to work in the same vein.  

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