A Linguistic Analysis of the Silence Narrative in a Selected Absurd Works

To identify and understand the absurd works efficiently, we need to realize the elements like the silence to recognize the theme and the writers’ messages precisely well. Analyzing and understanding silence instead of words help to decipher the richness of such works’ interpretation and criticism. The researchers have already strived to work on various kinds of silence to picture absurdity in some selected literary works of the world. In this study, the researchers have worked on how these absurd writers and playwrights use silence as a means to depict the descent, loneliness, isolation of individuals and demonstrate language as the cause of language deficiency for expressing absurd theme. The body of research consists of four plays entitled “Waiting for Godot” and” Endgame” by Beckett, “The room” by Pinter, “The cold Air” by Pinera ,and a novel named “The Blind Owl” by Hedayat. The research methodology has been descriptive analysis and data has been gathered through library research in Ephratt’s framework. The research showed the silence taken from the absurd works can indicate isolation, indecision, fear, aimlessness, misery, and confusion that lead to nothingness (absurdity). The outcome of this research is to achieve the diverse types of silence in Absurd Literary Style. Besides, it identifies the thoughts and attitudes of absurd writers to employ silence for demonstrating unarticulated parts of such postmodern works. Relying on this element, the reader or audience can succeed in comprehending the unstated words of these works.