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Title: Human condition as represented in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot
Description: This note displays humanity's situation in the modern world.It analyses the use of time,place and action in order to do so.It summarizes the main idea of the play.
Description: This note displays humanity's situation in the modern world.It analyses the use of time,place and action in order to do so.It summarizes the main idea of the play.
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Samuel Beckett is a writer who confronts the realities of existence through his plays
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The play has been labelled as one of the major examples in post-modernist
art which explains the‘collapsing of reality’,the beginning point for the‘theatre of the absurd’
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This action is repeated in both acts
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It has been reflected in this play:It is formless and does have a linear
progression of plot
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Both the setting and the time are same in both acts
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Time is meaningless,reflecting the repetitiveness of life
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" Vladimir and Estragon return to the
same place each day to wait for Godot
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Night falls instantly,and Godot never comes
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"One of the seemingly most stable of the patterns that give shape to
experience, and one of the most disturbing to see crumble,is that of time
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There is circularity of action
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In this play,even dialogues are circular and repetitive
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,sir” or through inability of characters to
remember what has just been said:Estragon:Either I forget immediately or I never
forget
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All of this is
an attempt to remain oblivious of the fact that they are waiting for a vague figure,partly of their own
invention,that will never come
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Martin Esslin satates that ‘the subjects of the play is not Godot,but waiting and the act of waiting “is
an essential aspect of the human condition”Vladimir and Estragon are more the embodiments of
basic human attitudes and their ‘waiting’symbolises life-situations that will forever repeat
themselves
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As Beckett often focused on the idea of "the suffering of being",he portrays human condition as a
period meaningless waiting, disillusionment of hope,the meaninglessness and helplessness of their
lives,their tragic fate before God, and their fear of death
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Title: Human condition as represented in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot
Description: This note displays humanity's situation in the modern world.It analyses the use of time,place and action in order to do so.It summarizes the main idea of the play.
Description: This note displays humanity's situation in the modern world.It analyses the use of time,place and action in order to do so.It summarizes the main idea of the play.