Life is life

Theater of the Absurd refers to a literary movement in drama popular throughout European countries from the 1940s to approximately 1989. The phrase ‘Absurd Drama’ or ‘The Theatre of Absurd’ gained currency after Martin Esslin’s book ‘The Theatre of Absurd’ was published in 1961. Absurdist playwrights adhered to the theories of French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus, in particular his essay The Myth of Sisyphus, published in 1942. In this essay, Camus introduced his Philosophy of the Absurd, in which he argues that man's quest for meaning and truth is a futile endeavor; he compares man's struggle to understand the world and the meaning of life to Sisyphus, a famous figure in Greek Mythology condemned to an existence of rolling a heavy stone up a mountain only to watch it roll to the bottom. By ‘Absurd’, Camus meant a life lived solely for its stake in a universe which no longer made sense because there was no God to resolve the contradictions. In other words, what Camus calle...

This paper will study the concept of Wild/Feral Child, in context with the Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley and will further look into the idea of monster and will study the real life cases of Wild Children and finally will check the overall growth of the Frankenstein.  Who is Mary Shelley and what inspired her to write Frankenstein?  Mary Shelley was an English novelist and short story writer and is best known for her novel Frankenstein. Also her parents were a major influence, as they were both famous writers and philosophers. Mary Shelley was inspired, by the scientific and political revolutions that were taking place at the time. When the novel was written, in June 1816, she was staying in Geneva, Switzerland with the famous lord Byron. Here she was then challenged to write a gothic horror genre book.  During her at Geneva, with a professor and her husband, one night they had a ghost story  competition following this she started getting a terrifying...

Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008) is ranked as one of the three maestros of Indian theatre–Girish Karnad and Badal Sircar may be taken as the other two. Tendulkar has been persistent in incorporating new form and techniques in his theatre to make it both philosophically thought provoking and aesthetically satisfying. His theatre is appealing both to the common audience and intellectual theatre critics. Vijay Tendulkar, the well-known playwright has written Ghashiram Kotwal in Marathi (first published, 1973). It has been translated into different languages-the Hindi translation was done by Vasant Dev (Delhi, 1974). Jayant Karve and an American professor Eleanor Zelliot have jointly translated Ghashiram Kotwal from the Marathi into English (Calcutta, 1984).  The play was first performed on 16 December, 1972 at Bharat Natya Mandir, Pune by the Progressive Dramatic Association. But after nineteen successful performances, the play was banned on the grounds that: the portrayal of N...