The Theatre of the Absurd Vis-à-Vis the Plays of Tom Stoppard
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Altaf Ahmad Bhat
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- Keywords:
- Existentialism, Absurd Drama, Tom Stoppard, Alienation and Chaos, Fact and Fiction, Philosophical Criticism
- Abstract
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This paper is a critique of existential terror, estrangement, and
meaningless social and ethical contradictions seen everywhere in the plays of Tom
Stoppard. The playwright intellectually mingles history and philosophy. The sense
of humour with refined wit is the essence of Stoppard. He superbly demonstrates
the confusion between fact and fiction in human life. His helpless characters are
always caught in the existential dilemma and misunderstanding of things.
Stoppard’s recurrent subject is immanent death and preordained fate of his
personas. Due to this all, the absurdity, ambiguity, and chaos of human life are
experienced by readers persistently. The present study tries to explore and evaluate
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- Published
- 2014-04-10
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014)
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- Articles