absurd drama where the world is meaningless and full of disorder Broken Communication The three men talk but they never truly understand each other Their words are repeated broken and unfinished Often silence replaces speech Pinter writes They look at each other Aston speaks slowly with long gaps Mick uses sharp and strange words Davies changes his talk to please both This broken communication is absurd in style Lack of Plot The play has no real beginning or end Nothing truly happens in it Davies says again and again All I got to do is to go down to Sidcup tomorrow But he never goes Aston plans to build a shed but he never builds it Mick dreams of a palace but he never creates it The play begins with Davies entering and ends with him being rejected There is no progress This lack of movement is absurd Life goes in circles with no clear result Unclear Identity Davies identity is never certain He keeps saying he needs his papers from Sidcup But we never see these papers His name also changes Sometimes he calls himself Jenkins His past is doubtful and his future is empty In an absurd drama man struggles to know who he really is Davies becomes a picture of lost identity He is a man without roots without trust and without true meaning Silence and Pause Pinter is famous for his use of silence In this play silence becomes a tool of fear and emptiness Aston tells his story of hospital treatment with long pauses This silence reflects his inner pain It also creates unease between the men Davies feels nervous when Aston and Mick remain quiet Silence is absurd because it shows emptiness in human life It says more than words and deepens the sense of meaninglessness Power Struggle The three men fight for control in different ways Davies tries to gain power through lies and tricks Aston uses firmness and calm decision Mick uses sudden violence and sharp words Davies even says You don t know what he s up to half the time This mistrust creates fear and menace But no one wins in the end Davies is rejected Aston stays alone and Mick unsettled This endless struggle reflects absurd drama where human life is only a game of power without result The Caretaker has all the marks of absurd drama It has no clear plot no final solution and no true hope The three men remain lonely helpless and broken Their words fail their dreams collapse and their struggles lead nowhere The shabby room becomes a prison of human life Thus the play can rightly be called one of the finest absurd dramas in modern English theatre