Unravelling The Myth of Absurd A Study of the Absurdist Creed

Abstract

This article aims at unraveling the myth of the absurd. ‘Absurd’ is a term coined by the Hungarian critic Martin Esslin who exploited the phrase “Theatre of Absurd” in 1961. Theatre of Absurd is etymologically derived from the existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’ assessment in his essay “ The Myth of Sisyphus” in 1942 [1]. It laid emphasis on the modern sense of purposelessness in which a man finds himself in a situation of ‘No Exit’.