The absurd and irony in Samuel Beckett’s waiting for Godot and Eugene Lonesco’s the lesson
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2019
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
University Of Oum El Bouaghi
Abstract
This study tends to explore absurdity and irony in two plays written by the well known absurd playwrights Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco. The study explores the tight relationship between irony and absurdism in two famous absurd plays Waiting for Godot and The Lesson. This work contains three chapters; the first chapter deals with theoretical backgrounds of the study such as: absurdism, existentialism, theatre of the absurd and irony. As for the second and the third chapter; it comes out as an analytical study. The second chapter is divided into two parts; the first part deals with patterns of absurdity in Waiting for Godot. This absurdity is found in the title, setting, structure, characters, action and dialogue. The second part tackles absurdity in The Lesson in terms of characters, setting and dialogue. Finally, the last chapter tries to answer the question of how irony is portrayed in the two absurd plays and its relation to meaninglessness or the absurd.
Description
Keywords
Absurdity, Waiting for godot, Existentialism