Absurdity in play (waiting for Godot) and Absurdity in life
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TOPIC : ABSURDITY IN PLAY (WAITING FOR GODOT) AND ABSUDITY IN OUR LIFE Prepared by : Jasani Nidhi Enrolment number : 14101018 Email : [email protected] Paper : Modernist literature Department of English M.K.B. University
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TOPIC : ABSURDITY IN PLAY (WAITING FOR GODOT) AND ABSUDITY IN OUR LIFE
Prepared by : Jasani Nidhi Enrolment number : 14101018Email : [email protected] : Modernist literature Department of English M.K.B. University
Introduction
• Samuel Barclay Beckett .
• 13 April 1906 - 22 December.
• Irish avant-garde novelist.
• Play wright, theater director and poet.
Waiting for Godot
It is written by Samuel Beckett. There are two acts in this play. There are six characters in this play. We can find nothingness in this play. There is use of one place in this play.
What is Absurdity?
An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, awkward, ineptitude, ridiculous etc...
“ The condition of state in which human
exist in a meaningless irrational universe where in people live without purposes or meaning.”
In the play practically nothing happened, no development is to be found, there is no beginning and no end.
No Beginning
No Middle
No End
The play Theatre of absurd lack a logical and conventional structure which is the representation of absurd predicament.
Characteristics of the “Theatre of Absurd”
Hopelessness in characters
Absurd or unexplained ending
Comic Scenes
Importance of Repetition
Elements of “ Existentialism “
Absurdity in Waiting for Godot This play belongs to the tradition of
the theater of absurd.
It is unconventional in not depicting any dramatic conflicts.
In fact this play comes under “ Theater of Absurd”. It is a kind of tragic comedy and unlike truth about life.
Absurdity in Life
In our life we can see that we are doing same things.
We have no choices. (In waiting) The play and our life both are similar. We found our self in character of
Vladimir and Estragon. Hope for tomorrow. Tomorrow never
comes. Waiting is endless proses.
Conclusion… We know that our life Is absurd, the
is nothing inn our life yet, we seems to be enjoying our life as like “Sisyphus”. Death will come, we can’t escape from it. So we have to enjoyed it …..
Thank
you….
Is kind of
absurdity…
