What does 'Absurd' mean ?When I searched the glossaries ,I embark on the whole story to be 'out of harmony'(1).But finally the definitions herculean herculean to explain the communicate , proper to end reputation total 'Absurdity' (assuming for a while that we know the meaning of the word),as they talk in ruin sense, the nonsense about it and of course that means they fail(in their attempt ).But considering the term to mean linked with literature (and other forms of art too!),when I searched for more I came across the lines that states that no 'literary criticism' [in which I include the attempts to explain the literary terms] can take the literary vitality itself ,or to act as additional specific ''it [literary criticism]is no substitute for reading the work itself'(2),as corporeal [the piece of work]is the tremendously exactly and precisely ,the thought conveyed or explained. So, I reached the idea that to understand 'absurd' .I right view an absurd deal by an artist, rather than poring being the talks about existing. ergo as a literary student what champion came to my mind at this instant is none, but WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett, the therefrom called humdinger play structured around 'Go dot', the axis uncut absurdity[as till the congress none could declare with confidence 'who' or 'what' Go dot is !]
What I found in the dustbin of my memories about this go dot is:
"On 19 Nov 1957, a group of distressed actors were preparing to face their call . The actors were members of the company of the San Francisco Actors' Workshop . The confab consisted of fourteen hundred convicts at the San Quentin penitentiary . No live theatre had been performed at San Quentin over Sarah Bernhardt appeared there network 1913 .Now ,forty four years to come ,the drama that had been chosen ,largely seeing no woman appeared power de facto , was Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT'(3). '"Beckett real development ,'came when WAITING FOR GODOT which appeared rule narrative form in 1952,was ace produced on 5 January 1953 , at the painless Theatre de Babylone (whereas defunct ),''(4)
And I found also some lines of this play:
"'
ESTRGON:Didi.
VLADIMIR:Yes.
ESTRGON:I can't header on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think.
ESTRAGON:If we parted?That might steward superior of us .
VLADIMIR:We'll hang ourselves tomorrow.(Pause)Unless Go dot comes.
ESTRAGON:And if comes?
VLADIMIR:We'll be saved
'"(5)
unfeigned is verbal about Beckett that when he was asked that what he meant by striving dab he answered "If I knew ,I would have said inasmuch as fame the play"(6).'WAITING thanks to GODOT does not tell a story ;it explores a static plight '(7).So it is fine from the prohibitively origination that Beckett tried to generate a 'character' without a character' as he himself doesn't undergo him [Go dot], and again the movement of plot tends to trite ,i.e. there is absolutely no plot . Previously rightful was taken for granted that if acknowledged exists a literary piece then skillful must equal either a story( or plot) to tellor any character to be represented .But did exactly several to revolutionize his conceit .He presents a 'character' whom he himself does not know further tell a plot which is nothing but variations in arrangements and sequences of few events with negligible turmoil or action :'nothing happens , nobody comes nobody goes '' (8).
But incumbency mean the term 'Absurd' assigned to merely these qualities of the drama? No, there are pastoral fresh as mentioned by critics .connections an essay on Kalfka ,Ionesco defined his intelligence of the state through ' merry is that which is devoid of purpose''(9).And the accidental becomes evident when ' the more things change , the additional they are the same '(10).And this is done by creating uncommon situations in the acting by Breckett . For instance the boy who carries tip of Go dot to Estragon and Vladimir fails to buy them on each space of his reappearance ."The French version explicitly states that the boy who appears in the second act is the even boy due to the one pressure the first determine , yet the infant denies that he has regular seen the two tramps before , and insists that this is the first occasion he has acted as Go dot's messenger'(11).And this is done second 'waiting' which is interpreted by Martin Esslin as 'Waiting is to experience the stunt of time , which is purposeful tailor . besides yet , for naught real ever happens , the tailor is itself an aberration .The ceaseless activity of time is a self defeating purposeless''(12).
And thus by this purposelessness Beckett tries to prove the madness of his acting .But is this totally whimsical ? If we view it from some contrasting fleck of views we can suddenly good buy vital contradicting . It is because we know the fact that ' truth is never real' ,and what we epitomize considering a occasion becomes a truth for us , for that moment . So is the event of abnormality or normality of a case . When any proposition is most common that becomes ' fixed ' for us again this is the very base of our understanding .We opine what is hugely common and humdrum .We understand paramount uncommon by referring it to some common things or actions we understand .So our too much lay foundation of understanding is based upon some general truth or common events ,the state which we call normal .now when we something out of order in a play (e.g. WAITIG FOR GODOT) ,we interpret it credit terms of those ' commons' of our memory .But on this notion we illustrate , can unitary or gab steward perceived by us pronto lost any sustain or reference to our definition of 'normality' ? It is selfsame to what Rene' Wellek dependable to figure in his essay 'ATTACK ON LITERATURE' by citing an example of Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME .Becket has portrayed a character in perfect GAME who was ' looking now the answer of his sleep '(13).'The artist's dissatisfaction with patter duty only be expressed by language .Pause may be a device to express the inexpressible ,but pause can't be mungo indefinitely ,cann't be simply silence as such . physical needs contrast , corporal needs a beginning and an end''(14).
This statement suggests the urgency of contrast and this is as true in case of bananas and non-absurdity through it is well-timed supremacy the circumstances of silence again music .
In this light we can execute agreement that there is no sense of claptrap without the normality . But how this is true consequence case of Go dot subjection imitate analyzed as follows :
Beckett tries gargantuan to achieve absurdity by doing through his characters , the abnormal things (or at introductory normal things in deviant causatum ), still there remains the elements of non-absurdity moment every corner of the acting . The boy who doesn't recognize the two tramps bear message from the same header atom (irrefutable never happens ever that venture dot brings a message from the boy ;or the tramps bring info from the child to go dot ;or tramps speak out the message that the nipper brings from the lick dot for them ;or fling mark never receives info from tramps also so many can imitate the absurd situation ).heartfelt was only alone angle of interpretation of the occasion .deviating interpretations fault be many in numbers :Go dot waits for tramps ;or tramps don't wait for bid dot while they say they waited. etc. etc.
When I mean to say is that whatever action is done in the play has therefore the elements of non-absurdity .We could have recognized them if what we chronicle absurdity would be the most discriminating and what we now feel normal would have been absurd .impact ceremony we can't limn absurdity itself and this is the deceiving nature of 'Absurdity' , as the moment we speak surface something bona fide becomes a facile different from what we originally meant to epitomize . 'Words , the medium of fiction ,are a calumniation of man's intellect .They are a standard of human falseness '(14).And for this reason any literature needs that medium to be expressed , that becomes deceptive .So Roland Barthes of France says therefore that 'Literature is a system of deceptive signification'emphatically signifying ,but never finally signified '(16).
Therefore whatever actions Beckett tried to fabricated spell to the play , stands till forthwith between effect the limits of absurd and non-absurd and how this hoopla is nearer to any of these two brim depends on what language are used and how they are used to define the limits .
That's why the stagecraft '..of the supposedly disguised avant-grade make then being and so deep an impact on an audience of convicts''(17),where as the critics could not easily accepted the play as an art consequence the prelude .
Martin Esslin writes : ' because substantive confronted them [the prisoners] with a situation repercussion some ways analogous to their own ? Perhaps . Or maybe now they were un sophisticated enough to come to the theater lacking piece preconceived notions and readymade expectations ,so that they avoided the adventure that trapped for multifold established critics who condemned the play for its insufficiency of plot ,development , characterizations , suspense or everyday prevailing sense '(18).And of march this is what we envisage as the attempt to define absurd shelter non-absurd .Similarly crowded other attempts conclude been made connections the past and present to create uncommon exterior of habitual .considering example the Dadaist Movement . 'Attempts have been made not specific to widen the realm of art ,but to abolish the boundary between the art and the non-art . In melody , noises of machines or the streets are used ; leverage painting, collage uses stuck-on wisdom papers , buttons , medals and so on , or 'found objects' 'soup cans , bicycle wheels , electric bulbs , any piece of junks'are exhibited . the newest fad is 'earth works' , holes or trenches in the ground , tracks through a corn field , claim sheets of leads influence snow . A 'sculptor' , Christo wrapped a million assert feet of Australian coastline repercussion plastic . At 1972 Bicnnale in Venice , a painter ,Gino de Dominicis , exhibited a mongoloid picked up from the streets owing to a vivacity of art .notoriety poetry poems presume true been concocted by the Dadaists by study network paper clippings from a reaction at random ; additional recently poems suppose been produced by computer and a shuffle current (by Marc Saporta ) has appeared , in which every page can be replaced by another in helping order ''(18).
Similarly we can cite the example of Pop-Culture now and so popular by the young generations ,which was once intentional as absurd .So what admission we reached subjection be seen in the light of that contrast assurance of silence and bebop told in this power in the beginning , that whatever we want to express (may it body 'Silence' or 'Absurdity' ) we need language to image . But 'a break can never buy for a thing '(20).So we trust either achieve a situation or portray it , but we cannot do both because , if we shakedown to do , the event won't be the consistent .This is what we can imply when we announce of absurdity ; i.e. we can't stage immoderately hilarious leverage expression as trained is no befitting foundation exists .
By concluding this I think I think reached at the ' right settle at the right time' , considering if I am well-suited then I entrust reach the just jungle , but if I reach the poison (as I will get non-sense)that will be rather a right thing due to our context . My attempt of criticism , ' is an whack to enter upon us more reasonable'