“ Waiting for Godot”
Samuel Barclay Beckett 13 April 1906 –
22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-gardenovelist, playwright, theatre
director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and
wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most
influential writers of the 20th century.
Beckett's work
offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled
with black comedy and gallows humour, and became
increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of
the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin
Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."
The French play’
Waiting for godot’ written by Samuel Beckett. it is a classic play. the
‘waiting for godot’ the central theme is ‘Nothingness’ but nothingness create
something is there also the play. the play it’s a part of ‘ Theatre of
Absurd’ the absurd theatre name was given
by martin Esslin –also we can say that word absurd like musical tone the music
is start but if the some music tone are miss so this type of situation like
Absurd.
Waiting for Godot as a
comedy inspired by Charley Chaplin. the opening of the play setting in country
road and tree two tramps . the tramps are very interesting characters in the
play. there are altery fail human being.
the tramps are not an common man but the out cast of people.
for example :
“Iceman Commenth”
The structure of the play
is repetitive. the repetitive of human
nature. the waiting for godot as a comic tragedy and also it is hilarious
comedy. here, we can see the two tramps they are waiting for the name of
GODOT. They don’t know who is godot ?
and godot will come or not ? but they waiting for godot. however, the two
tramps like Vladimir and Estragon. at the country road they entertaining and
dancing. the character of Vladimir is a more mature rather than Estragon. and
he always reminder the think and the character estragon always forgotten the
think.
Here, also we can
find that another two character of lucky and pozzo. the relation between master
and slave.
also we can say that one of the hungry of thought and other the
hungry of mind. but nothingness perhaps remain in the play.
However, in whole play estragon and Vladimir
both are waiting for godot but godot never comes. at the last Act-1 and Act-2.
the little boy coming and Vladimir ask them when godot is come or not and
little boy replies him , “Today will not come but tomorrow he will come”.
In this line we can defined that hope
remain there in the play in both characters. we can see the different kind of
human being. some are higher and lower thinking human being and different level
of thinking.
Waiting for godot an tell
a story it is tell as the static situation explained also the play optimistic ruler
pessimistic and waiting becomes interesting in the play.
In the play ‘waiting for
godot’ the main subject is ‘waiting’ and waiting is centre. always human
condition and wait for something it’s also very essential condition of waiting.
“waiting for
something and prepared something throughout life we waiting something”
It’s all about the infinity
goes on throughout life. also we can say that godot is a idea about the ‘death’
and waiting is to expresses the action of time.
However, we can see the existentialism
in waiting for godot. there are many great novelist or critic gave the own idea
about the existentialism in the play. like the Soren Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Edmund
Husserl, Kafka, Satre, Beckett, Camus, etc.……
at last we can say that,
“Life is absurd but
it is Necessary”
No comments:
Post a Comment