The word absurd means, “to sound impure”. Waiting for Godot, The Dumb Waiter and The Bald Prima Donna are all typical of the purpose of absurd. These plays all feature irrational, illogical, and life has no meaning and simplicity.
The primary device used By Beckett in Waiting for Godot is to express this instinctive moment, is the poetic image. Beckett often focused on the idea of “the suffering of being.” Most of the play deals with the fact that Estragon and Vladimir is waiting for something to ease their boredom. Godot can be understood as one of the many things in life people wait for. The play basically exists less in its take on life. The fact that none of the characters retain a clear mental history means that they are const
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The Bald Prima Donna also creates these features including the use of communication breakdown, silences and illogical speech and movement.
antly struggling to prove their existence. Thus the boy who consistently fails to remember either of the two protagonists casts doubt of their existence. This is why Vladimir demands to know what the boy will in fact remember the next day. These features help to develop the devise concept of absurdum.