Mehmet Akif Balkaya Research Assistant Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Science and Letters Aksaray University Aksaray, Turkey This paper studies Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party in terms of their rejection of the characteristics of the traditional drama, and analyzes in what ways these plays are absurd….
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Alienation Isolation and the Loss of Identity: Examining the Works of T.S Eliot and Samuel Beckett
Debadrita Chakraborty Macquarie University Sydney, Australia A growing sense of aloofness, alienation and rootlessness pervades in the works of modernist writers Eliot and Beckett resulting in the loss of identity making life futile and empty, thanks to the brunt of horrors of the two world wars that modernism had to bear. This paper critically examines…