Abstract
The Experiences of Alienation, Insanity and Despair: The Zoo Story and Modernity
Highlights
Albee is inclined to the term, “theatre of absurd,” a postWar phenomenon
“Theatre of absurd” attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy aiming at shocking its audience out of contentment and helping to bring face to face with the harsh facts of the human situation
Modernism that came as a consequence of industrialization as well as World War I and II is one of the focal points of The Zoo Story
Summary
Albee is inclined to the term, “theatre of absurd,” a postWar phenomenon. “Theatre of absurd” attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy aiming at shocking its audience out of contentment and helping to bring face to face with the harsh facts of the human situation. Modernism that came as a consequence of industrialization as well as World War I and II is one of the focal points of The Zoo Story. Modernism turned the daily life outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging industrialized world.
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