Oh the Sorrow...
During the 20th century, there was an evident disillusion and disintegration
in religious views and human nature due to the horrific and appalling events and
improvements in technology of this time, such as the Holocaust and the creation of
the atom bomb. This has left people with little, if any, faith in powers above or in
their own kind, leaving them to linger in feelings of despair and that life is an
absurd joke. From these times grew the Theater of Absurd. Here they attempted
to depict the very illogical and ridiculous life they were living. In comparison to
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