Language. The use of circular and repetitious form communicates the lack of ontological meaning in life The approach to language in absurd theatre both reinforces that quage in absurd theatre both reinforces that quality and, specifically, shows that language is not equipped to express knowledge ro to define the meaningless. Language, the supremely rational structure, is often used as the final distinguishing feature between humans and other animals, whose responses are more instinctual than logical. However, the mid-twentieth century saw rational language come to a dead end in logical positivism. Language was seen to have no value in defining the essential properties of existence; it was reduced to such profound assertions as "green is green." To make a "true statement" was to be redundant. By definition, language could not express the inexpressible and was thus reduced to making trivial statements or, worse, to masking true experience beneath rhetoric.