Bad faith and the theatre of the absurd in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

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The theatre of the rd is a theatre about the meaninglessness and hopelessness of modern life, as well as the different ways in which humans attempt to give themselves reasons for survival.

It depicts characters that are loners, who feel lost and seek to control their lives in the easiest ways.

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut represent the dilemma of the meaning and purpose of life in a very humourist but also deceiving style.

Death is presented as a freedom to control life since it is the only decision the characters in both works manage to make.

Bad Faith is a central theme as it is presented as a way to justify human decisions.