-: Waiting for Godot :- 201 pat i more pathetic, they cannot communicate their helpless longings to | eanother, While failing to possess enough individualism to go their separate ie cay», they nevertheless are different enough to embrace most of our society. In yy) « final analysis, their one positive gesture is their strength to wait. But man _ ultimately, terribly alone in his waiting. lonesco shows the same idea at the «, ad of Rhinoceros when we see Berenger totally alone as a result, partly, of a »failure in communication. a Hach dramatist, therefore, presents a critique of modern society by showing 'y;he total collapse of communication. The technique used is that of evolving a aipeme about communication by presenting a series of seemingly disjointed & ,peeches. The accumulative effect of these speeches isa devastating commentary HI yn the failure of communication in modem society. 8 In conjunction with the general attack on communication, the second , aspect common to these dramatists is the lack of individuality encountered in * qodern civilization. Generally, the point seems to be that man does not know * ,imself He has lost all sense of individualism and either functions isolated and * yienated, or else finds himself lost amid repetition and conformity. "Ultimately, the absurdity of man's condition is partially a result of his yeing compelled to exist without his individualism in a society which does not assess any degree of effective communication. Essentially, therefore, the Theater the Absurd is not a positive drama. It does not try to prove that man can ist in a meaningless world, as did Camus and Sartre, nor does it offer any plution; instead, it demonstrates the absurdity and illogicality of the world ye live in. Nothing is ever settled; there are no positive statements; no ‘onclusions are ever reached, and what few actions there are have no meaning, sarticularly in relation to the action. That is, one action carries no more ignificance than does its opposite action. For example, the man's tying his shoe in The Bald Soprano — a common occurrence — is magnified into a somentous act, while the appearance of rhinoceroses in the middle of a calm ternoon seems to be not at all consequential and evokes only the most trite ind insignificant remarks. Also, Pozzo and Lucky's frantic running and zarching are no more important than Vladimir and Estragon's sitting and ing. And Genet presents his blacks as outcasts and misfits from society, ‘ul tefrains from making any positive statement regarding the black person's dle in our society. The question of whether society is to be integrated or ‘gregated is, to Genet, a matter of absolute indifference. It would still be society, ‘dthe individual would still be outside it. No conclusions or resolutions can ever be offered, therefore, because these “Ysare essentially circular and repetitive in nature. The Bald Soprano begins ‘ a with a new set of characters, and other plays end at the same point Lem they began, thus obviating any possible conclusions or positive ; ents. The American Dream ends with the coming of a second child, this bi who is fully grown and the twin to the other child who had years tered the family as 2 baby and upset the static condition; thematically,