Estragon

1. Would you agree that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot perfectly encapsulates all the uncertainties of modernity? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. The absence of a meaningful plot, of objective dialogues and of absolute certainty is the state of absurdity. Beckett utilizes absurdity to play around with the concept of existential nullity which saw man trapped in a hostile world. Human life is meaningless and this created a sense of alienation, despair and…

In Waiting for Godot, Vladimir and Estragon have just been through a tragic war, which the reader can assume is World War 11, and are waiting for their friend Godot. Estragon” ESTRAGON: I’m going. /He does not move.” (1.67) This commentary between the two men is another example of how the attachment of a person can be detrimental to a person. The men dependency…

In both scenarios, the hopes and dreams of the main characters will seemingly never be accomplished. In Waiting for Godot, it becomes evident that Vladimir and Estragon will be left waiting day after day, repeating an endless cycle. In 1984, the hopes of the proles’ rebellion lie in their consciousness, which will never come so long as the proles remain comfortable with their lifestyle. In both scenarios, the hope…

Literature has always been defined as a mirror of life which reflects both its complexities and trivialities in such a paradoxical way. Monotony, which represents part 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…

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.…

wait, ' 'What exactly did we ask him for?/ Were you not there?/ I can 't have been listening. ' (Beckett, S, 2006, p9) they have 'a need to wait for Godot without knowing who or what Godot is and why waiting is necessary. ' (Gupta, S, 2005, p225) Estragon and Vladmimir also suffer from their own physical constrainments, such as Vladimirs feet, and while these do not inhibit their ability to move from their meeting place it shows that they are extremely reluctant to listen to advice to help…

for Godot”. McLuckie also compares how, because in the play, Lena is the one often confused as to what time of the day it is or where they are as is constantly asking Boesman whether they have been there before, it is reflective of Estragon and Vladimir in that Estragon relies on Vladimir as a system of reckoning. Another comparison by McLuckie(1993:2) is that in the two plays and how the concept of absurdity is expressed through their actions or lack thereof. In “Waiting for Godot”, Vladimir…

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, there are three countries in total, and they all have same system of government which is oligarchy that only a few people controls the government. The story sets mainly in one of the countries, Oceania. People can be separated into three distinct types which are proles, outer party members and inner party members. 85 percent of the population are proles. Proles receive little educations and live in poverty. Therefore, they are ignorant, don’t pay attention to…

each playwright. Tom Stoppard was a child during the outbreak of World War II but Samuel Beckett was an active member of the French Resistance. As an Irishman helping the French, Beckett fearfully watched WWII much like his characters Vladimir and Estragon fearfully watched the episodes of Pozzo and Lucky. In contrast, Stoppard was a child still discovering the world during WWII. When compared to Waiting for Godot, Tom Stoppard’s characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern experience the story of…

Jean-Paul Sartre, who is often referred as the founder of existentialism, hated to be identified as an existentialist, for he deemed it a violation of his individualist philosophy to be a part of a literary movement. He even rejected the name because he deemed it to be too confining! Existentialism at its conception rotated around the “life is without purpose” mantra; however, with the introduction of authors such as Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, a new light illuminated…