Analysis of Waiting for Godot

Susan Sontag — a person that links Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett. As a critic she wrote commentaries on both: art and literature. In 1964 Andy Warhol had made a Screen Test of Sontag in his Factory and almost twenty years later she directed Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo. They created a triangle contained of “low” and “hight” culture intertwined with critical interpretation (or the question on interpretation). In this essay I would argue that both: Beckett and Warhol in their works made a…

The Search for Meaning in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Introduction Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French in 1949 and then translated it into English in 1954. Waiting for Godot is the most popular play in every corner of the world. Therefore, this play has been performed as a drama of the absurd with astonishing success in Europe, America and the rest of the world in post second world war era. Waiting for Godot delineates the events of two consecutive days in the life of…

of the daily routines in life, has been chosen by Becket to unveil the ongoing restlessness of human nature. Very simple and trivial motions in life can lead to great discoveries or dramatic events. With a brief look at Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, some would say that it is traditionally thought to carry on without an underlying meaning, but if analyzed it can be seen to have so much more substance concealed in its simplicity. Peeling away the layers, significance can be uncovered…

Rose Kennedy once said, “Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety” (“Atmosphere”). Within the vast world of the theatre, one will find a variety of different environments and atmospheres that play a significant role in the progression of the plot and development of the characters. The term environment can take on many different meanings in the theatre: physical landscape, interior surroundings, climate, socio-economic conditions, or family circumstances.…

“Next Day. Same Time. Same Place.” Thus, with an assertion of uniformity, begins the second act of the play, titled En Attendant Godot, in English, Waiting for Godot: a Tragicomedy in Two Acts. The play was written by the French dramatist Samuel Beckett and was first performed 1953. One of it’s defining characteristics is it’s complete lack of plot, so much so that the second act of the play is almost an exact replication of the first, wrought with repetitions in the dialogue and stage…

I’ve always had a wide taste in terms of literature, particularly fantasy and crime. For me, literature isn’t just escapism but a way of analysing the world around you, looking at what’s happening and questioning the norm. Be that subverting aspects of a genre or satirising all of society, there’s something special about the ways literature, and more recently, film, can analyse a something in such a way to make anyone who views it analyse their world also. The first book I read that showed me…

departure from the super-objectives that are an integral part of Stanislavksi’s philosophy of theatre. Absurdism promotes the idea that life has no meaning, except the one that we create for ourselves. This is translated into performances such as Waiting for Godot, in which contradictory speech and actions, minimal context, and ambiguous setting are used to get the audience to construct their own interpretations. The idea of ambiguity in setting and character also go against the Stanislavksi…