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attempt to sort it ourselves. Perhaps we’re looking for meaning that isn’t there or we aren’t worthy of that one true explanation. So we sit and wait until a greater force says we are. The play, “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett captures the feelings and perspective of two men who spend endless days waiting to be told something beyond their understanding. In the play we meet Estragon who’s also known as “Gogo,” a very aberrant human being with a child-like spirit, whom we meet after he…

So their Godot is Lucky’s Pozzo. The idea here is that they might recognize that waiting for salvation from Godot is to wait for nothing or to wait for an…

Absurdity in The Outsider Albert Camus, one of the eminent French novelist, essayist and playwright is often considered as a nihilist, or extreme absurdist who believes that life is senseless and useless. ‘The Outsider’, Camus’s first novel is a representation of his absurd thinking about the world. The use of the term ‘absurd’ in literature is a vehicle for writers to explore and represent those elements in the world that do not make sense and ‘The Outsider’ is one of the beautiful…

In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot two vagabonds wait for man who is only identifiable by his name. The pair attempts various actions to help pass the time but ultimately they are trapped in a wait without end and are forced to inhabit a circular structure of de-narrativised time. Time presents a list of problems in Beckett’s play causing panic, confusion and memory loss. This essay aims to discuss the various aspects of the play relating to the themes of time and waiting. This essay will…

Once his enemies are vulnerable in relation to him, Prospero delivers a soliloquy in which he renounces his magic. “… this rough magic / I here abjure… This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my book,” he promises (V.i.159-166). Throughout the play, “magic” refers to charms and spells. However, this “rough magic” appears more nefarious in this…

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a modernist play that is often used as a prime example of theatre of absurd. The absurd within theatrical literature is defined by themes of purposelessness and bewilderment, with limited characterization seen and a disjointed, incomprehensible plot. In the article Waiting is All by Ruby Cohn, she explains how Beckett uses these absurdist values to create dramatic tension, without having noteworthy characters or any semblance of a progressive story. Cohn…

Cranor manage to get away. For a while at least. Now thanks to the brilliant minds of his good friend and the rest of the CSI team and science they were able to track possible places he might be. He sat outside one of those places in an unmarked car waiting for a sign of someone in the second story apartment. While he waited he checked his phone. He had two messages one from Olivia and the other from his older brother Grayson. Liv want to confirmed their plans of beer and terrible b-horror…

The Tragedy Recreation of Richard III The performance of Richard III is a fruitless play about a play that begins in a car park; the residence of long lost Richard III’s skeleton. This piece combines contemporary theatre with Shakespearean theatre to supposedly engage the audience’s understanding and reflection of the nature of evil, the value of Shakespeare and traditionalism of plays. Richard III was co-written by Daniel Evans and Marcel Dorney and directed by Daniel Evans as a recreation of…

Did you know that Dr. Seuss won 6 medals for all of his books combined ? He made all different types of children books, mainly rhyming. One of his popular books was called Green Eggs and Ham, this book was published August 12, 1960. This symbolized the things we are afraid of, through two characters: Sam-I-Am and an unnamed character. In the book Green Eggs and Ham, the character Sam-I-Am constantly persuaded the unnamed character to try the Green Eggs and Ham. The unnamed character refused…

Furthermore, both plays kind of fits into the concept of comedy. It’s the classic scenario of a comedy where the villain is carried off to jail, the lovers get married and justice is served. However, there is no renewal in society because the blocking force itself is not renewed. In “Tartuffe”, Orgon is the blocking force who separates Mariane and Valère from being together. He says “Yes, Tartuffe shall be/Allied by marriage to this family/And he’s to be your husband is that clear? /It’s a…