MAJOR CONCERNS OF SELECTED ABSURD DRAMAS

Absurdism could be said to be both a literary trend and a philosophy. Absurdity is a key word in Beckett's plays as well as in the Theatre of Absurd. In 1883 Friedrich Nietzsche published his masterpiece The Spoke Zarathustra in which the revolutionary statement appeared that God is dead. Earlier people have a deep faith in God. But after the publication of Nietzsche’s work people started losing their faith in God and on certainties. World War I and II destructed the world and brought forth the uncertain world. Where anything can happen people started taking a doubt whether God exists or not. Apart from its earliest antecedents, absurdism first surfaced in France in the beginning at the twentieth century.