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What does ‘Absurd’ mean ?When I searched the glossaries ,I found the word to be ‘out of harmony’(1).But yet the definitions trying challenging to explain the term , just to end in total ‘Absurdity’ (assuming for a while that we know the meaning of the word),as they speak in total sense, the nonsense about it and obviously that means they fail(in their attempt ).But taking into consideration the term to be linked with literature (along with other forms of art too!),when I searched for additional 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 work itself ,or to be extra particular ‘…it [literary criticism]is no substitute for reading the function itself’(2),as it [the piece of work]is the most precisely and precisely ,the thought conveyed or explained. So, I reached the concept that to understand ‘absurd’ .I need to view an absurd work by an artist, as opposed to poring over the talks about it. Hence as a literary student what initial came to my mind at this instant is none, but WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett, the so referred to as absurd play structured around ‘Go dot’, the axis all absurdity[as till the date 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 worried actors had been preparing to face their audience . The actors had been members of the firm of the San Francisco Actors’ Workshop . The audience consisted of fourteen hundred convicts at the San Quentin penitentiary . No live play had been performed at San Quentin because Sarah Bernhardt appeared there in 1913 .Now ,forty four years later ,the play that had been chosen ,largely because no woman appeared in it , was Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT’(3). …”Beckett real triumph ,…came when WAITING FOR GODOT which appeared in book form in 1952,was initial produced on five January 1953 , at the small Theatre de Babylone (now defunct ),…’(4)
And I discovered also some lines of this play:
“…
ESTRGON:Didi.
VLADIMIR:Yes.
ESTRGON:I can’t go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.
ESTRAGON:If we parted?That could be greater of us .
VLADIMIR:We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow.(Pause)Unless Go dot comes.
ESTRAGON:And if comes?
VLADIMIR:We’ll be saved
…”(5)
It truly is said about Beckett that when he was asked that what he meant by Go dot he answered “If I knew ,I would have said so inside the play”(6).’WAITING FOR GODOT doesn’t tell a story ;it explores a static scenario ‘(7).So it truly is clear from the quite beginning that Beckett tried to produce a ‘character’ without having a character’ as he himself doesn’t know him [Go dot], and once again the movement of plot tends to zero ,i.e. there is definitely no plot . Previously it was taken for granted that if there exists a literary piece then there need to be either a story( or plot) to tellor any character to be represented .But did precisely opposite to revolutionize his idea .He presents a ‘character’ whom he himself doesn’t know and tell a plot which is nothing but variations in arrangements and sequences of few events with negligible movement or action :’nothing happens , nobody comes nobody goes …’ (8).
But can be the term ‘Absurd’ assigned to merely these qualities of the play? No, there are actually still a lot more as mentioned by critics .In an essay on Kalfka ,Ionesco defined his understanding of the term as ‘ Absurd is that which is devoid of purpose…’(9).And also the purposeless becomes evident when ‘ the much more things alter , the additional they’re the very same ‘(10).And this is accomplished by developing uncommon scenarios in the play by Breckett . For instance the boy who carries message of Go dot to Estragon and Vladimir fails to recognize them on every day of his reappearance .”The French version explicitly states that the boy who appears inside the second act will be the identical boy as the one inside the first act , however the boy denies that he has even observed the two tramps prior to , and insists that this is the first time he has acted as Go dot’s messenger’(11).And this is completed even though ‘waiting’ which is interpreted by Martin Esslin as ‘Waiting is to experience the action of time , which is constant change . And however , as nothing real ever occurs , the alter is itself an illusion .The ceaseless activity of time is actually a self defeating purposeless…’(12).
And therefore by this purposelessness Beckett tries to prove the absurdity of his play .But is this actually absurd ? If we view it from some different point of views we can suddenly locate one thing contradicting . It can be mainly because we know the truth that ‘ truth is in no way real’ ,and what we define for a situation becomes a truth for us , for that moment . So will be the case of abnormality or normality of a situation . When any action is most popular that becomes ‘ typical ‘ for us and this will be the rather base of our understanding .We fully grasp what’s most typical and general .We understand something uncommon by referring it to some popular things or actions we understand .So our quite base of understanding is based upon some general truth or typical events ,the state which we call normal .Now when we one thing out of order in a play (e.g. WAITIG FOR GODOT) ,we interpret it when it comes to those ‘ commons’ of our memory .But on this view we analyze , can uncommon or absurdity be perceived by us directly without having any aid or reference to our definition of ‘normality’ ? It’s comparable to what Rene’ Wellek tried to explain in his essay ‘ATTACK ON LITERATURE’ by citing an example of Samuel Beckett’s ENDGAME .Becket has portrayed a character in END GAME who was ‘ trying to find the voice of his silence ‘(13).’The artist’s dissatisfaction with language can only be expressed by language .Pause might be a device to express the inexpressible ,but pause can’t be prolonged indefinitely ,cann’t be basically silence as such . It wants contrast , it requirements a beginning and an end…’(14).
This statement suggests the significance of contrast and this is as accurate in case of absurdity and non-absurdity as it truly is accurate inside the case of silence and music .
In this light we can reach decision that there is certainly no sense of absurdity without having the normality . But how this is accurate in case of Go dot could be analyzed as follows :
Beckett tries tough to attain absurdity by performing by means of his characters , the abnormal issues (or at the very least typical things in abnormal sequence ), still there remains the elements of non-absurdity in every corner of the play . The boy who doesn’t recognize the two tramps bring message from the exact same Go dot (It never happens ever that Go dot brings a message from the boy ;or the tramps bring message from the boy to go dot ;or tramps speak out the message that the boy brings from the Go dot for them ;or Go dot never receives message from tramps and so lots of might be the absurd case ).It was only 1 angle of interpretation of the circumstance .Other interpretations can be lots of in numbers :Go dot waits for tramps ;or tramps don’t wait for Go dot while they say they waited. etc. etc.
When I mean to say is that whatever action is performed inside the play has thus the elements of non-absurdity .We could have recognized them if what we call absurdity would be essentially the most normal and what we now really feel normal would have been absurd .The fact is we can’t express absurdity itself and this is the deceiving nature of ‘Absurdity’ , for the reason that the moment we speak out one thing it becomes just a little various from what we originally meant to express . ‘Words , the medium of fiction ,are a fabrication of man’s intellect .They are a part of human lie ‘(14).And for this reason any literature wants 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).
For that reason whatever actions Beckett tried to fabricated in to the play , stands till these days between in the limits of absurd and non-absurd and how this action is nearer to any of these two limits depends on what words are used and how they’re employed to define the limits .
That’s why the play ‘..of the supposedly esoteric avant-grade make so immediate and so deep an impact on an audience of convicts…’(17),where as the critics could not effortlessly accepted the play as an art within the beginning .
Martin Esslin writes : ‘ because it confronted them [the prisoners] with a scenario in some methods analogous to their own ? Maybe . Or perhaps because they had been un sophisticated sufficient to come to the theater without having any preconceived notions and readymade expectations ,to ensure that they avoided the mistake that trapped so several established critics who condemned the play for its lack of plot ,development , characterizations , suspense or plain widespread sense ‘(18).And obviously this is what we see as the attempt to define absurd with non-absurd .Similarly quite a few other attempts have been made within the past and present to create uncommon out of widespread .For example the Dadaist Movement . ‘Attempts have been made not just to widen the realm of art ,but to abolish the boundary between the art plus the non-art . In music , noises of machines or the streets are utilised ; in painting, collage uses stuck-on news 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 within the ground , tracks through a corn field , square sheets of leads in snow . A ‘sculptor’ , Christo wrapped a million square feet of Australian coastline in plastic . At 1972 Bicnnale in Venice , a painter ,Gino de Dominicis , exhibited a mongoloid picked up from the streets as a function of art .In poetry poems have been concocted by the Dadaists by drawing news paper clippings from a bag at random ; extra lately poems have been produced by laptop or computer and a shuffle novel (by Marc Saporta ) has appeared , in which just about every page could be replaced by an additional in any order …’(18).
Similarly we can cite the example of Pop-Culture now so preferred by the young generations ,which was once regarded as as absurd .So what conclusion we reached could be observed within the light of that contrast theory of silence and music told in this essay inside the beginning , that whatever we would like to express (may perhaps it be ‘Silence’ or ‘Absurdity’ ) we want words to express . But ‘a word can in no way be a thing ‘(20).So we can either obtain a situation or express it , but we can not do both mainly because , if we attempt to do , the circumstance won’t be the exact same .This is what we can imply when we speak of absurdity ; i.e. we can’t be totally absurd in expression as there is no correct medium exists .
By concluding this I believe I have reached at the ‘ correct place at the proper time’ , mainly because if I am perfect then I will reach the proper thing , but if I reach the wrong (as I will get non-sense)that may be rather a proper issue due to our context . My attempt of criticism , ‘ is an attempt to make us extra reasonable’
Doc. No.323-FB-LRD25-mr23

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