Vegetarianism In Literature

Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett are the two powerful literary figures of postmodern drama. In their work they depicted the pangs of poor, downtrodden, exploited, weaker, and proletarian and the dominated people. We can clearly notice the concept of Gramsci’s hegemony where bourgeois class dominant over the proletarian class of the society. We may feel a predominant power where domination of stronger over weaker can be observed. Proletarian people are the victim of their fate. Since birth they have been deprived of the power of wealth and education and the dominated classes has got the benefit of their ignorance and have ruled over them in the name of racial discrimination, social differences and their financial status in the society.
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Samuel Beckett in his famous plays- Waiting for Godot, The End Game and Pinter’s famous plays like, The Birthday party, The Caretaker, One for the Road etc. represent the absurdity of existence in equally apt dramatic language.
A patient reading of Beckett’s and Pinter’s plays impresses upon a sensitive reader the deep seated fear of unknown and unpredictable among the characters. In other words, their characters undergo moral and spiritual crisis leading to complete dislocation and disillusionment of their lives. More often than not these characters appear to be victims of brutal forces which tell upon them seriously. The characters suffer physically and spiritually. Sometimes they appear to be victims of an inhuman monolithic social system, sometimes they suffer from menace from mysterious forces. However hard they try to escape from the invasion of brutal forces around them. They find themselves at the loggerheads of dilemma and distraction. In other words, the persona in the works of Beckett and Pinter feel profound sense of oppression and anguish which make mass of their

The existentialist ideology has constituted the heart, the essence of modern literature and philosophy and more importantly dramatic literature. The aftermath of the Second World War was the disillusionment, the anxiety, the socio-political unrest, the chaos which befell the promising youths of Europe. Naturally, the wide spread corruption, social instability, moral and spiritual crisis made the life enigmatic and the result was the spate of existential literature in the form of Theatre of Absurd. This kind of theatre was borne as an expressionistic, non-verbal, philosophical communication of the deep-seated sense of anxiety, menace, chaos and disillusionment due to breakdown of values. Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Stoppard, Camus, Kafka in Europe and Albee, Saul Bellow and O’Neill in America expressed this absurdist-existentialist temper in their