The document discusses the use of non-linear narrative in Theater of the Absurd. It provides examples of plays that employ non-linear structures, such as Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. Non-linear narratives are used in Theater of the Absurd to reflect the absurdity of human existence and generate confusion and disorientation in the audience. They encourage active engagement with unpredictable storylines that lack clear meaning.
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Modern English Literature
· Absurd DramaOC15 RESPONd to this quote #1
Absurd drama is defined by works of drama created during the modern era. It is known as absurd because of how boldly it strays away from traditional ideals. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a play well-known for being apart of the "Theatre of the Absurd". Waiting for Godot is a great example of absurd drama because every element of the play is strange and abnormal. The homelessness and disillusionment is expressed in all aspects of the play; the setting, language, characters, etc. Dictionary.com defines absurd as unreasonable, illogical, and inappropriate. Modern literature expresses a theme of absurdness of culture. Normalcy is no longer a thing and the elements of modernism consists of something disturbing. In Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is absurd because it exposes dysfunction within the household. It is also absurd to think that the pure and innocent house wife could be a sexually pleasing mistress to many men; nevertheless, make her own money doing so.
The absurd element of modern literature is not only expressed through drama. It is also expressed through poetry. In Dulce et Decorum Est, William Yeats expresses absurdness by poetically confronting the ugly truths about war. He completely goes against the fantasized manifest destiny perspective and uses figurative language to convey a negative image of war; "coughing like hags", "drunk with fatigue", "helpless sight", gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs". Yeats paints a picture of the modern society to expose the absurdness of the fantasy of war.
· Absurd dramaCL13 Respond to this quote #2
Absurd drama was mostly written in the 1950's and 1960's. The term was first defined as the human situation as basically meaningless and absurd. Whereas traditional theatre attempts to create a photographic representation of life as we see it, the Theatre of the Absurd aims to create a ritual-like, mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams. The focal point of these dreams is often man's fundamental bewilderment and confusion, stemming from the fact that he has no answers to the basic existential questions: why we are alive, why we have to die, why there is injustice and suffering. Waiting for Godot is a great example of this because it embodies so many elements that are included in the definition or characteristics of of an Absurd drama.
· Central Themes in Modern Literature CJ12 Respond to this quote #3
Modern Literature can be best described as being in direct contrast with traditional culture. In Literature, this is displayed in unreliable narrators, non-linear time, a stream of consciousness style, and an overwhelming amount of irony and satire.
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Absurd drama is defined by works of drama created during the modern era. It is known as absurd because of how boldly it strays away from traditional ideals. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a play well-known for being apart of the "Theatre of the Absurd". Waiting for Godot is a great example of absurd drama because every element of the play is strange and abnormal. The homelessness and disillusionment is expressed in all aspects of the play; the setting, language, characters, etc. Dictionary.com defines absurd as unreasonable, illogical, and inappropriate. Modern literature expresses a theme of absurdness of culture. Normalcy is no longer a thing and the elements of modernism consists of something disturbing. In Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is absurd because it exposes dysfunction within the household. It is also absurd to think that the pure and innocent house wife could be a sexually pleasing mistress to many men; nevertheless, make her own money doing so.
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Absurd drama was mostly written in the 1950's and 1960's. The term was first defined as the human situation as basically meaningless and absurd. Whereas traditional theatre attempts to create a photographic representation of life as we see it, the Theatre of the Absurd aims to create a ritual-like, mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams. The focal point of these dreams is often man's fundamental bewilderment and confusion, stemming from the fact that he has no answers to the basic existential questions: why we are alive, why we have to die, why there is injustice and suffering. Waiting for Godot is a great example of this because it embodies so many elements that are included in the definition or characteristics of of an Absurd drama.
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1. The Use of Non-Linear
Narrative in Theater of the
Absurd
Paper 110 A: History of English Literature - From 1900 to 2000
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3. Non-Linear Narrative
❖ Theater of the Absurd is known for its obsolete approach to narrative structure,
often employing non-linear and fragmented storytelling techniques.
❖ This can be seen as a reflection of the absurdity of human existence and the
disorientation and confusion that can arise from living in an unpredictable and
often nonsensical world.
❖ Non-linear narrative style is a storytelling technique that does not follow a linear,
chronological sequence of events. Instead, the story is presented in a fragmented
or non-chronological way, often through the use of flashbacks, dream sequences,
or other techniques that disrupt the traditional flow of time.
❖ In Theater of the Absurd, non-linear narrative is often used to reflect the
absurdity of human existence and the chaotic, unpredictable nature of the world.
4. ❖ Non-Linear Narrative included in work may be to generate
Confusion and Disorientation so that audience or reader
concentrate on storyline.
❖ In a non-linear narrative, the audience may be presented with
events out of order, or with events that seem disconnected or even
contradictory.
❖ So, it seems like this style is also a tool to run the story smoothly
with unpredictability and also is for audencine.
❖ The audience is encouraged to engage more actively with the
story and to draw their own conclusions about the meaning and
significance of the events being portrayed.
What is the need of Non-Linear Narrative?
5. Different ways to present Non-Linear Narrative
❖ Some stories from the Arabian Nights, like "The City of Brass" and "The Three
Apples," don't follow a straight, chronological order. Instead, they begin in the
middle of the action (in medias res) and jump back and forth in time (using
flashbacks) to fill in the gaps and provide more information about what happened.
(Pinault)
❖ The poem Beowulf, written in medieval English, doesn't tell the story of the main
character's life in a straight, chronological order. Instead, it jumps around to different
important events throughout Beowulf's life, showing how he grows and changes over
time. (Klaeber)
❖ In the late 1800s and early 1900s, writers like Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Ford
Madox Ford, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner were modernist novelists who
played with the way stories are told. Instead of sticking to a straight, chronological
order, they experimented with different ways of organizing events and sometimes
skipped around in time. (Heise)
6. ❖ A critic named Martin Esslin came up with a term in 1960 called "The Theatre of the
Absurd." In his essay, he talked about a group of playwrights who wrote in this style,
including Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and Eugène Ionesco. The term refers to plays
that are strange and don't make sense in a traditional way. (Esslin)
❖ The term "The Theatre of the Absurd" comes from an essay by a French philosopher
named Albert Camus. In his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus," written in 1942, Camus said
that life is meaningless and absurd. (Culík)
❖ The plays by Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter,
and others that are part of this theatre all have a similar view that people are living in a
world that they don't understand. (Culík)
❖ The world doesn't seem to have any meaning, and people feel lost and afraid. (Culík)
❖ The structure of the plays in "The Theatre of the Absurd" often goes in a circle, starting
and ending at the same point.
Theater of the Absurd
7. ❖ "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett is a play that employs a non-linear narrative
structure. The play's structure is not chronological, and it jumps back and forth between
different time periods and events.
❖ The non-linear structure of the play supports this sense of emptiness, meaninglessness
and existentialism.
❖ The play follows two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for a character
named Godot to arrive. However, Godot never appears, and the characters are left to
question the meaning of their existence.
❖ The characters often repeat the same actions and conversations, and events seem to loop
back on themselves. The audience is left with the impression that nothing is progressing
or changing.
❖ They are stuck in the action of Waiting and not able to move forward, this shows how
powerless their are to make they own choices, and this might have happened because of
the use of Non-Linear Narrative in the Play.
Non-Linear Narrative in ‘Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Beckett
8. ❖ ‘The Birthday Party’ too has the Non-Linear Narrative in it, one can see by the
structure of this play.
❖ The play is structured in a way that jumps back and forth in time and shows different
events from different perspectives, creating a sense of disorientation for the audience.
❖ In this play the feeling of Nonlinearity can be reflected through the way everyone
feels trapped in that boarding house and can never escape from it.
❖ The way scenes of Stanly, Meg, Petey, Goldberg, McCann and Lulu came one after
another it clearly seems to be a Non-Linear way of writing.
❖ This scene of Lulu came in the Play and in the movie cut down by the director can be
a hint of unnecessary and Non-Linear Narrative.
❖ The time when Goldberg and McCann came into the play out of the blue is also
considered as this Narrative.
Non-Linear Narrative in ‘The Birthday Party’ by Harold Pinter
10. ❖ Culík, Jan. “The Theater of the Absurd The West and The East.” The Theatre of the Absurd,
University of Glasgow, 2000,
web.archive.org/web/20090823075755/www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Absurd.htm.
❖ Esslin, Martin. “The Theatre of the Absurd.” The Tulane Drama Review, vol. 4, no. 4, 1960,
pp. 3–15. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1124873.
❖ Heise, Ursula K. Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism. Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
❖ Klaeber, Friedrich. Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg. University of Toronto
Press, 2008.
❖ Pinault, David. Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights. Brill, 1992.
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