January 2012

The theme of self and identity in the ‘Theater of the Absurd’

  Adam's idea of emergence of life out of habit and order out of chaos implicates the idea of getting to identity from nonentity. Dramatic literature, and more specifically, theTheater of the Abusrd, has proved promising in revealing the existential obsessions of man imposed on him by the demanding characteristics of the postmodern era. In the realm of theater, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, are...

Author(s): Saeid Rahimipoor and Henrik Edoyan