Essays about: "Absurdism"

Found 3 essays containing the word Absurdism.

1. 1. Waiting for Godot : A Play in Which the Main Characters' Lives Are Presented As Meaningless

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Iman Abbas Abdulmehdi; [2023]
   Keywords : Waiting for Godot; Absurdism; Nihilism; Existentialism; Samuel Beckett;

   Abstract : The objective of this argumentative paper is to study the play Waiting for Godot from a specific point of view. The statement of this thesis is that the lives of Vladimir and Estragon are presented as meaningless, and this claim is based on the analysis of the play and the study of other published scholarship that is associated with the topic. READ MORE

3. 2. A Kind of Prayer: Representations of Faith and Religion in Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Niklas Löfgren; [2017]
   Keywords : Samuel Beckett; faith; religion; Christianity; absurdism; existentialism; Languages and Literatures;

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4. 3. The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sten Mittermaier; [2008]
   Keywords : Herman Melville Albert Camus Moby Dick futility absurdism human condition;

   Abstract : In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meaning beyond life itself. READ MORE