Abstract
THE DRAMATISTS OF THE Absurd find Man an uncomprehending being in an incomprehensible universe. They ask, along with Sophocles and Shakespeare, the awful question—Why? Why is Man here? Why is Man on earth? What role is assigned to him to play? What function fulfills Man? And they always arrive at the same answerless answer—Nothing. Nothing fulfills Man. Man is on earth for no reason at all. There is nothing for Man to do—nothing, that is. except to wait, pass time. "Man is lost; all his actions . . . senseless, absurd, useless." He may not even, like Johnson's Rasselas, go back to the "Happy Valley" to cultivate his garden. He has no garden. That is his ultimate absurdity. Assuming, then, the fundamental absurdity of the human condition, what kind of character can a playwright conceive to represent this absurdity in concrete image?
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