Analysis Of The Theater Of The Absurd

The Theater of the Absurd Religious declining is covered till the end of the World War II, and then it is replaced with developing nationalism and many kinds of dictatorial delusions, All this was broken by the war (Esslin, p. 23 ). At this moment, diverse orientations in attitude of human being on life determine new interpretation for definition of reality. For some people after Second World War, their doubts on condition of man are bigger, they think of reality and new orientations of life as a chaos. In 1942, an Existentialist philosopher, Albert Camus, writes an essay in the title of "The Myth of Sisyphus". He insists on that, aimlessly, the condition of man is absurd in life; therefore, the idea of being absurd warms up by him. It is

The theater with these elements of absurd is called "new Theatre". According to Abrams and Schumacher the conceptual features of "new theatre" are found in the works of the writers at the end of nineteenth century. Schumacher states that, "The theatrical antecedents of the "new theatre "are to be found, much earlier in the plays of Alfried Jarry (1873-1907) "(ibid, p 466). He was French dramatist who is one of the symbolists; he is famous for his play Ubu Roi. And "Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and in the theories of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)"(ibid, p. 466). After advocating the idea of absurdity by Sartre and Camus, regarding philosophy and literature, it is always said, the years after World War II are fruitless years, in the matter of theater. But a few years later, the idea of absurd replies with a new term, which slips into literature meant of new type of theater. It is called the Theater of the Absurd, "the phrase "the theater of the absurd" was probably coined by Martin Esslin, who wrote The Theater of Absurd (1961)" (Cuddon, 1998.p. 910). Theatre of the Absurd refers to the playwrights in 1950s and 1960s the permanent names are Samuel Becket, Ionesco Eugene, Harold Pinter. The theater of the absurd widely bases on the old tradition of west and the main writers are British, Spanish, Italian German, and Swiss writers from Eastern Europe and American as well as French writers, and those writers who are living in Paris they write in French but they are not French