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The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time. The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.
It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.
The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions - and to laugh at it.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
