My presentation about Absurdities found in The Birthday Party.

1. Topic: Absurdity in the Birthday Party
Name: Rabhadiya Vinod J.
Semester: 3
Year: 2014-15
Roll no: 32
Paper No: 9 The Modern Literature
Email: vjrabhadiya@gmail.com
Submitted To:
S.B. Gardi
Dept of English
M.K.University Bhavnagar

3. What is Absurd ? The Absurd Theatre
“The condition of
state in which
human exist in a
meaningless
irrational universe
where in people’s
live have no
purpose or
meaning .

4. Examples of Absurdity
The Myth of Sisyphus Waiting For Godot

5. Ambiguity and Mystery
Stanley’s past is so Mysterious
Goldberg and McCann way of asking questions to
Stanley
Kafka’s work intensifies the dreadful angst experienced
by the protagonist

6. Disjoined and fragmented dialogs

7. Stanley:
Last year
GB:
When
did you
come to
this
place?
Disjoined and fragmented dialogs
GB:
where did
you come
from?
Stanley:
somewhere
else
GB:
why did
you
come
here?”
Stanley
: my
feet
hurt!!!
GB:
where did
you stay?

8. Disjoined and fragmented dialogs

9. silence And
pause
Knocking
of the Door
Knocking
is
threatening
The room
or House
Beating
Drum by
Stanley

10. Shifting Identities: Contradictions : Identities
remains unclear
Nat
Simey
Benny
Dermot ( In talking with Petey)
Semus (In talking with McCann)

11. “Falsehoods are important for Pinter’s dialogue, not least when they can be
detected only by careful reference from one scene to another…. Some of
the more blatant lies are so casually delivered that the audience is
encouraged to look for more than is going to be disclosed. This is a part of
Pinter’s two-pronged tactic of awakening the audience desire for
verification and repeatedly disappointing this desire”