"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely actors." (Jaques 2.7.6. As You Like It) The story Rosentcrantz and Guildernstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, demonstrates how the stories and their characters are all just imaginary. The characters in the play have no control over their lives, they were created by a writer who controls everything about them and they only exist when they are meant to. The characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, however, do not realize that they are simply characters and are being watched by the audience. Everything they do is fun for the audience to enjoy. The coin flips, the acting, the scene, the fact that the characters cannot make choices - not even the Player - all lead to the fact that they do not exist in their lives, but exist when their play is being performed for the moment. public entertainment. Tom Stoppard used every form of comedy in this tragedy to help show people the theater of the absurd and existentialism. Throughout the story, the author shows that Ros and Guil are curious and always try to apply logic and find what is true, but in the end the audience learned that logic is meaningless and nothing is truly true. A good example of an attempt to use logic is when the audience sees Ros and Guil playing the coin toss game. It always comes up tails, even though half the time it should come up heads. This proves that logic makes no sense. Another example of an inability to use logic would be that neither Ros nor Guil could make sense of what Hamlet was saying. To them it was simply nonsense, no matter how they saw it. Guil had a gift for using sophistication by making what he said sound true or as if he knew what he was talking about, but because of c...... middle of paper ...... to explain his view on existentialism and Theater of the Absurd by creating characters such as the Gambler, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who do not exist but are simply characters created for the entertainment of the audience. Tom Stoppard used comedy throughout this play to explain how logic makes no sense, the collapse of language, and non-existence due to not making choices. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead shows how Ros and Guil couldn't take control of their lives because the writer didn't want them to. They couldn't make choices because everything in them was created by the author. The Player didn't exist either, he was simply the link between Tom Stoppard and the story itself. In a certain sense, the player was its spokesperson. No matter how aware the characters might seem of their situation, their lives were still in the hands of their creator.