Themes and Issues

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd

“…Kritzman explains this point: Camus's politics of love and his ethos of reflective action and understanding create a moral imperative where human choices have a moral dimension. 74 With this understanding of goodness, as Ehrmann says, Camus's sense of "an absolute virtue, an absolute justice and an absolute truth were decried as angelism by the existentialist." 75 Camus believed in an inherent human nature that contrasted with the basic existentialist tenant that existence precedes essence.…”

“…VLADIMIR: No, it's not worth while now. 74 In this understated exchange, the two friends both realize how necessary they are to each other. As Frankl states, When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility, which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude.…”