“IN VIAGGIO VERSO L'INFINITO” - Matematicamente.it

LETTERATURA INGLESE
Anche la letteratura inglese ha visto diversi pensatori cimentarsi nel problema del senso e del
nonsenso: con il subentramento della relatività d’ogni cosa e del dubbio, ancora ai giorni nostri si
prosegue nell’analisi di questo irrisolvibile dilemma. Uno dei più recenti e significativi autori è
stato il celebre Samuel Beckett, padre del Teatro dell’Assurdo.
10. Samuel Beckett
Beckett became popular and well-known more because of Waiting for Godot than any of his other
works. His plays placed him in the centre of the Theatre of the Absurd, one of the major movements
in modern drama since the end of World War II.
This thesis is an attempt to look into Beckett's absurdity, considering it as a kind of art which affects
mostly the emotions perception rather than the reason.
11. The Theory of Absurdity
Absurdity is a key word in Beckett's dramatic writings as well as of the whole Theatre of the
Absurd. Three important problems could be underlined through the analysis of his works:
1. what Absurdity is,
2. in what fate life moments it appears,
3. what consequences for a human view of life it holds with itself.
1. One of the most basic philosophical questions asks whether there is any meaning in our
existence at all. The human necessity of unifying explanation of world has always been
satisfied by religion and creators of the philosophical systems who made the human life
meaningful. The natural desire to get to know and understand the world in its most hidden
spheres was fulfilled by religious dogmas about the existence of God, which guaranteed the
meaningful contingency of human life.
2. World War I and World War II caused deep destruction and loss of human ultimate
certainties and definitely brought about a world missing any unifying principle, a world
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