The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka describes an absurd story about a traveling salesman-Gregor,who became deformed under the great physical and mental pressure and the changes of life within his family before an...
With its presentation of the apocalyptic view of the world of four agonized survivors,Endgame conveys a strong sense of nihilism:the futility of existence,the universal misery,human’s suffering,hopelessness and despa...
Samuel Beckett is regarded as one of the representatives of the Absurd Theater and his Endgame one of his most famous masterpieces that fully embodies the features of the Absurd Theater. By analyzing the living of the...
This paper discusses the “waiting” in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from three aspects: The self-split of the “waiting”, the ambiguous object of the “waiting” and the fragmented inner dimension of the “wa...
Joseph Heller is regarded as one of best American writers and his Catch-22 as one of the most significant works whichcontains a lot of elements of black humor in it. This paper aims to explore and analyse the art of b...
This paper discusses an absurdity that is rooted in the modern physics’ interpretation of Einstein’s relativistic mass formula when v is very close to c. Modern physics (and Einstein himself) claimed that the speed ...
Whereas scholarship on Zhang Meng's acclaimed film The Piano in a Factory is scarce and mainly focuses on working-class identities, the present article contributes to the discussion by investigating the film's tragi...
Waiting for Godot is one of the most famous plays written by Samuel Barclay Beckett, and also is the founding work of"Theatre of the Absurd". In the drama, repetitive phenomena shed light on the whole construction con...
The elements of Sartre's existentialism are shown in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: The world abounds with absurdities and bitterness; people can be the hell to each other; an individual has a free choice and act, but...
Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) and Albert Camus (1913-1960) are two distinct writers from two different continents. These writers have interesting commonness, especially in two of their novels—Chander Amabasya (Nigh...