Postmodernism emerged in the last century to confront many conventions of the modernist era. Authors such as Fowles, Delillo, Pynchon, Borges and Stoppard play on the convictions of audiences and take from them what society holds most dear. In Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead two bewildered heroes are able to redefine the world they have been subjected to by questioning every certainty they come across. A broad range of standards are subjected …showed first 75 words of 763 total…

…showed last 75 words of 763 total…truths; some must be constant in order for life to go on. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are simply not satisfied with the world they have been given, so they turn their lives into a never-ending game of question tennis. Through this Stoppard means to show that reality is not definable, it is all relative to the person perceiving it. And the only way to get closer to the truth is not to be satisfied with it.