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The play “Waiting for Godot” is one of the things that ask audience
“What is a sense of life?”. The direct answer of author to this question is
not given, it is full of allegory. In the course of reading the play a feeling of
complete absurdity of what is happening is transformed into understanding
what exactly this is our reality. Perhaps, only thanks to faith to the future
person
can pass through absurdity, meaninglessness, deceitfulness and
monotony of life. Losing faith to the future makes man unhappy. Constant
expectation of a better future robs us of life itself and makes it meaningless
and boring. Here everybody chose one of them for himself. Not in vain that
heroes are different one believe that Godot comes,
another every time
doubt and want to leave, not to wait Godot. The text of “Waiting for Godot”
need different interpretation according to the reader. But it is clear what the
author is intended to say in this play: waiting of miracle, changes toward
good life. Godot is a general name for all this. It removes it from the
temporal context and bring to absurdity of his existence. In “Waiting for
Godot” world is absurd, full of illogic facts, events and words. The play’s
volume is not huge, there is some ironical humor, which support and/or
entertain pessimistic picture at all. There is not any monologue except of
the moment when Lucky “think”. Main characters Estragon and Vladimir
stuck
in time and place, where they wait for Godot, which has to bring
the sense of life to their existence. In fact, it is a real picture of the life.
They wait Godot, although there is no guarantee they will meet him. Nor
Gogo, nor Didi do not know what else they can do instead of waiting. The
ending is not shown, it is open ending. Audience cannot find out alternative
for waiting.”We’re waiting for Godot.”[16; 10]
While reading the play
we try to guess author’s secret. Simple dialogues push audience to think
thoroughly. Beckett’s heroes always go together as Vladimir and Estragon.
They need each other. Their talking is a means of communication, in which
“message” is not important, but “medium”, it means,
not content, but
means are important. Playwright, which is God for his personages, throw
them on the stage without any explanations where are they and what they
should do. Beckett shows us metaphor “Life is a theatre”. By leaving own
personages on the stage to fight against meaningless emptiness of life, he let
the audience to watch how will they get out from this situation.
In “Waiting for Godot” all the events are narrated chronologically.
There are no flashbacks, the story is lineal, because an act carries another
act, as we can see at the beginning of every one of them: “Next day. Same
time. Same place.” The story goes on, because the two characters have to
wait for Godot, and all the events form a unity. One act is followed by
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another act, and they are in the same place, at the same time, waiting for
Godot, as at the beginning. The climax in this play is the waiting: this is
the base of all the acts of the main characters the characters want to go,
but they cannot, they have to wait. In our opinion, there is no development,
because the same things happen one time and other: they want to go, but
they cannot; they want to commit suicide, but they cannot; all they can do
is wait Godot to come. Characters are very important in this play, because
the play is about themselves. Here we have five different characters. Main
characters are Vladimir and Estragon. This two characters have not got a
normal life, their life is without sense. They pass all the time waiting for
Godot, who is a person they don’t know. Secondary characters are Pozzo
and Lucky, a boy. We think that the dominant passion of the characters is the
bordom of living in a life without sense. We can see the absurd things they
do in order to enjoy their waiting in the play. As we can see, the characters
are ridiculous, in spite of Beckett’s description of them in a moral point
of view. This is the result of the absurd theatre that he uses. The author is
not interested in showing us a message, in our opinion he is only showing
us the human weakness. This is seems through the language that Beckett
uses where the communication is nearly unexist. We can see the characters
through the language they use because during the play we have not got any
actions. We hardly know the characters along the story because they are
characters without psychology and it seems that they do not have identity.
As this is a play, the most important thing is the dialogue, which help us to
know what the characters are doing, thinking, what actions would beand, in
this way, we get more involved in the play. All the characters use the same
kind of language in the play: it is a colloquial language and also idealistic,
,as we have found in those all religious references. This play is a narrative
descriptional play because the author uses the narrative although there
is a lot of dialogues and descriptions to place us, to indicate what are the
characters appearance. Sentences in the play are usually short and simple.
Beckett has tried the characters to speak in this way to emphasize their
characteristics: Estragon and Vladimir,
the main characters who speak,
because they are old and ill.
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