Theatre of absurd

The plays of the Theatre of the Absurd often couched in the form of extravagant fantasies … are nevertheless essentially realistic … The realism of these plays is a psychological, and inner realism: they explore the human subconscious in depth rather than trying to describe the outward appearance of human existence (Esslin, 1965, pp. 22-23). With reference to at least two plays from the Theatre of the Absurd discuss the ways in which these plays accurately reflected psychological and inner reality as it might have been felt by people in post World War II Europe.