It's a look behind the scenes from a point of view you can't see during Hamlet. The characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are behind the scenes of Hamlet's story and watch events unfold. They often discuss the philosophical issues of free will versus predestination and during their debates try to prove absurd questions with existential answers. It was written in 1966, the best time for existentialists and absurdists (Bas 1). Stoppard linked the opera to these visions with absurdist theater in many ways. His work analyzed visions of human existence, with meaningless communications, distorting character, and tapping into a force that controls everything outside of nature (Bas 2). Stoppard did a great job of tying everything together and creating people