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    The document discusses Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It provides context that the play was originally written in French in 1948 and premiered in 1953 in Paris. It discusses the play's themes of uncertainty, the absurdity of existence, and hope as a form of salvation. It also analyzes the characters Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky, and their relationships. Finally, it discusses critic Martin Esslin's view of the play sitting between modernism and postmodernism and its effect of stripping characters of dignity while using humor and the absurd.

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    The document discusses Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It provides context that the play was originally written in French in 1948 and premiered in 1953 in Paris. It discusses the play's themes of uncertainty, the absurdity of existence, and hope as a form of salvation. It also analyzes the characters Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky, and their relationships. Finally, it discusses critic Martin Esslin's view of the play sitting between modernism and postmodernism and its effect of stripping characters of dignity while using humor and the absurd.

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    The document discusses Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It provides context that the play was originally written in French in 1948 and premiered in 1953 in Paris. It discusses the play's themes of uncertainty, the absurdity of existence, and hope as a form of salvation. It also analyzes the characters Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky, and their relationships. Finally, it discusses critic Martin Esslin's view of the play sitting between modernism and postmodernism and its effect of stripping characters of dignity while using humor and the absurd.

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    Waiting For Godot

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    Jéney Denisza
    The document discusses Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It provides context that the play was originally written in French in 1948 and premiered in 1953 in Paris. It discusses the play's themes of uncertainty, the absurdity of existence, and hope as a form of salvation. It also analyzes the characters Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky, and their relationships. Finally, it discusses critic Martin Esslin's view of the play sitting between modernism and postmodernism and its effect of stripping characters of dignity while using humor and the absurd.

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    Jéney Denisza

    13.10.2022
    Waiting
    for
    Godot
    Samue
    Heavy allusion to l
    ‘30
    other literary works
    wordplays
    becket
    Mature
    prose
    Dark humor,
    Nonsense
    t
    Minimalist,
    nonspecific
    Happy
    days
    Deconstruc BLEND
    ts: S:
    TH  Plot
     Character
     Hopelessness
     Humor
    theatre E  Language
    Key
    of features
    A B S  Uneven  Cryptic

    R D tempo dialogue
    U  Black humor  Circular
    reasoning
    • Originally written in
    Wa French in 1948
    i
    ng ti
    • The world premiere
    for was held in 1953 in

    do Paris
    go • It upset many among its
    t first audiences
    themes
    The play sits on the
    fence between these Modernism &
    Uncertainty of
    Mindpostmodernism
    two movements
    & body & memory and
    time recrusiveness of time
    Has a dehumanizing
    effect → robs Suffering
    Suffe & dignity
    characters of their The absurdity of
    dignity & makes them Humor &purchase
    the absurd existence dissolves
    indifferent Existentialism & in humor
    nihilism
    Hope as a form of
    salvation
    Vladimir & Estragon
    ● Two different parts of a whole
    Duality of
    Pozzo & Lucky character
    ● Opposite in status → share a
    bizarre mutual dependence
    s

    The boy(s)
    vladimir
    • Logical

    HATS and
    • Intellectual

    • Primarily concerned

    boots with feelings

    estragon
    ● Act II mirrors act I
    Duality of
    ● The two days are structure
    reflections of many days
    in the past & future
    MARTIN Helps people:

    ESSLIN → In the challenge of accepting the human


    condition and its probable
    About the meaninglessness in its absurdity and
    mystery
    theatre of
    absurd → Accepting that ultimately, man is alone in
    a meaningless world, which is something
    he must bear responsibly and with
    dignity, because getting rid of illusions
    might be painful, but it brings freedom
    VLADIMIR: I don't
    understand.
    ESTRAGON: Use your
    intelligence, can't you?
    Vladimir uses his
    Intelligence intelligence.
    VLADIMIR: I remain in

    & (dark) the dark.

    humor ESTRAGON: What


    about hanging
    ourselves?
    VLADIMIR: Hmm.
    It’d give us an
    erection.
    “Endlessly open to
    interpretation”
    01 02 03
    Absence of Never ending Personification
    God in the sense of of Freuds ego
    modern world incompletness and id

    04 05 06
    Allegory of the
    Purposelessness
    Cold War or the Hope
    of life
    French Resistance
    Thank you for
    your attention!
    Sources
    • Shomik De: Existentialism and Samuel Bekett’s Waiting for Godot:
    Chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807999.pdf

    • Dr. Samer Ziyad Alsharadgeh: The themes of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot:
    chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/The-themes-in-
    Samuel-Becketts-play-Waiting-for-Godot.pdf

    • Zaenal Makhfuddin: Meaning of life in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot:


    chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230652976.pdf

    • Martin Esslin: The Theatre of the Absurd:


    chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://web.iitd.ac.in/~angelie/courses_files/TOA/esslin
    %20essay%20tdr.pdf

    • Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, Grove Press; 1st edition, ISBN-10: 080214442X

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