Respected sir and fellow classmates here by i am sharing my presentation of modernist literature topic named "Absurdity in To the lighthouse, waiting for Godot, wasteland and birthday party".
Absurdity in to the lighthouse, waiting for Godot, Wasteland and Birthday party
1. Absurdity in To the Lighthouse,
Waiting for Godot, Birthday party,
Wasteland
Namrataba Zala
Semester: 3
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Batch: 2016-2018
Email Id : namratazala2707@gmail.com
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.
