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part of his circle indeed, in 1929 he published an essay on Joyce’s Work in Progress (which was to become part of Finnegans Wake). Returning in 1930 to a Lectureship in French at Trinity College, he completed a master’s degree in the philosophy of Descartes and his followers; but he abandoned the post in 1931 and wandered about Europe, living in London, France, and Germany. In 1937 he settled in Paris, where he has remained, save for trips abroad, ever since [4, 652]. Beckett’s reputation would probably have remained local if it had not been for his play Waiting for Godot (produced first in French in 1952, as En attendant Godot, and in his own English version in 1955), one of those works which like Macpherson’s Ossian have won international famewhatever posterity’s verdict turns out to be because they embody a European mood. Its matter is perennially Irish, tramps arguing, a rich man gorging, a poor man slaving, herdboys, and a rendezvous not kept. This is the most remarkable of Beckett’s plays. It is a perhaps unrepeatable tour de force, which might never have been written if the postwar French theatre, and particularly the plays of Ionesco (q.v.), had not provided a stimulus and form suited to its needs. Since Waiting for Godot, he has written other plays, including Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame (performed in London in 1958) and a play for the radio, All That Fall (1957). In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his writing, which: in new forms for the novel and drama; in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation [5, 48]. ISSN 2411-8745 Number 1 (2016), 180 - 185 ҚазХҚжӘТУ ХАБАРШЫСЫ «ФИЛОЛОГИЯ ҒЫЛЫМДАРЫ» сериясы 183 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 ISSN 2411-8745 Number 1 (2016), 180 - 185 ИзвестИя КазУМОиМя серия «ФИЛОЛОГИЧесКИе НАУКИ» 184 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. жүктеу/скачать 1,6 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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