Waiting for Godot

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…

Other than the theme absurdity, Jean Paul Sartre also evolved the idea of alienation into Existentialism. The theme alienation is displayed in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. As Hamlet is struggling with the loss of his father, his friends and family start to betray him and leave him to feel as if he only has himself to trust. “Ay, so, God, be wi’ ye! Now I am alone. O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I: It is not monstrous that this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion,…

absurdity of human existence. Absurdity in this context means disharmony or meaninglessness. This style of writing was first used by Samuel Beckett in his play ‘En Attendant Godot’ between the years 1948 to 1949. This play was originally written and performed in French in Paris but was later on translated as ‘Waiting for Godot’ and performed in English in 1955. The term ‘Theatre of…

taking action and putting into politics to create an interesting piece the most notable example would be Tom Clancy and his series of books. “Jack Ryan is sworn in as President of the United States minutes after becoming Vice President”. 2. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett. Absurdist is a genre of a fictional narrative usually used in novels, plays, etc and follows the life and events of the character. “The play opens on an outdoor scene of two bedraggled companions: the philosophical Vladimir…

David Mamet, an American playwriter and director. Grew up in a suburb of Chicago in the late 1940s, early 50s. His childhood was not always happy, Mamet’s sister once said that there was a lot of emotional violence growing up. Mamet first began to gain an interest in theater from his uncle due to his help landing him some small roles. Before he was a famous playwright, he was an actor and director. He also found St. Nicolas Theater Company. His first successful play was American Buffalo. It has…

literary devices. What I had learned in my English classes, opened my mind up to a whole new level of understanding the varying elements throughout a novel. I gained an appreciation for all type of books and as a result novels like The kite Runner, Waiting for Godot, and Henderson the Rain King, ended up becoming my some of my favorite…

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…

whose mother is fair-skinned” (Wilkerson 71). In this way Kennedy dejects the conflict Sarah finds herself in. She is torn between two cultures; the African and European. She cannot accept her blackness, and can’t find acceptance in the white society. Wilkerson explains that this struggle is “metaphorical and symptomatic of ambiguous state of people who were created out the clash of African and European cultures” (71). Kennedy's characters represent the selection between the two…

My research centers on Jorge Luis Borges and constructs a web of influences on him and his literary oeuvre through examining his many interviews. Throughout his life, Borges consented to hundreds of interviews. Rather than undertaking exhaustive research, I gathered data from nine of Borges’ most widely available interviews, largely conducted in English and issued in prominent, English-language publications. Some interviewers transcribed the interview content in the moment or from tape…

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…