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“A country road. A tree. Evening.” These stage directions preface Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot.” In the play, two men meet on this sparse, forlorn stage and attempt to make sense of their obscure world through encounters with mysterious characters and the prospects of finding purpose upon the arrival of a character they call Godot. The two men, Estragon and Vladimir, experience very little action or significant adventure in regards to the plot. Still, Beckett, regarded by some…

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 Hamlet with a reflection of childlike…

King Lear and Waiting for Godot are plays that are very similar in a way that they have the same central concern of recognition within the plays. There are many different ways that the issue of recognition is shown; there is self-recognition, recognition by others and recognition of actions. Whilst these plays differ from each other in almost every other way, they do share this central concern. Recognition means the acknowledgement of the existence, validity or legality of something. The many…

What is the purpose of us being on this very Earth? The answer may seem out of our reach. We don’t know who to ask, and we certainly don’t know where to start looking. Since birth we’ve had our whole theory of existence told to us through questions without answers. As time progresses we find ourselves more frustrated when our own meanings continue changing the more we attempt to sort it ourselves. Perhaps we’re looking for meaning that isn’t there or we aren’t worthy of that one true…

One’s desire to be recognised and moreover acknowledge the truth within relationships, circumstances and furthermore life, is of central concern in both William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting For Godot”. The drive and motivation one illustrates whilst craving recognition or validation from those surrounding them is a recurring theme in both plays, as is, the recognition of one another’s identity and the “self” in them. It is the eventual recognition of power and it’s…

There is evident constraint within the play Waiting for Godot, how far it is a play about the condition of constraint is a matter that raises some discussion. The play covers constraint in many ways, from the way is has been written and produced, the set and props to the internal world and its story. There is evident constraint portrayed by the characters which is amplifyed by the use of language and their interactions with each other. It is possible to go beyond the simple viewing of the play…

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool,” (Stephen King). BJ in Tears of A Tiger and Maddie in Lucky In Love both try to find a greater good in other people and sometimes even themselves. BJ was trying to blame himself for Robs death but kept trying to find a way around it. He wanted to not feel guilty and to prove to himself that he was good, he wanted God to forgive him. Similarly, Maddie had recently won the lottery. More people had been coming up to her than usual and she…

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.” This quote extracted from Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that premiered on 5 January 1953, holds the essence of absurdist theatre and what its playwrights seek to express- the inescapable meaningless and futility of life. The origins of absurdist theatre are commonly linked to the avant-garde experimentations of the 19th century, but there has been speculation that there were traces of absurdist theatre in works…

Vladimir 's Song as a Representation of the Play in Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 's two act tragicomedy Waiting for Godot depicts the endless wait for something better as told through the eyes of two homeless men named Vladimir and Estragon who have nowhere to go. As both men wait for a person by the name of Godot, they find ways to pass time in the form of friendly banter, contemplating suicide, philosophical conversations and reminiscing about the past. Both acts end…

Hamlet’s monolog is one governed by rationality. It is a meditation on life and death, being alive and not being, over the disadvantages of existence and the act of suicide. Hamlet compares life with death. He sees life as missing the power, humans as being exposed to the blows of life and outrageous fortune. The only way to dodge the blows will be to stop existing. The death is thus a desirable state. Nevertheless, it is also seen as a journey to the unknown, to a place for which there is no…