ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Thus the play Waiting for Godot contains almost all the elements of an absurd play. The play depicts the irrationalism of life in a grotesquely comic and non-consequential fashion with the element of “metaphysical alienation and tragic anguish.” It was first written in French and called En attendant Godot.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ belongs to the tradition of the Theatre of Absurd. It is unconventional in not depicting any dramatic conflicts. In the play, practically nothing happens, no development is to be found, there is no beginning and no end.

Detailed explanation-3: -The play Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett portrays two aimless char-acters in a world of alienation and no meaning. The absurdity of the situation of the characters arises from their hope for a meaningful life. This possibility of hope that never arrives leads to humor as well as tragedy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Absurdity which is, according to Beckett, the essence of human existence, is the main way he uses in order to depict the emptiness and alienation in the modern world. Further-more, centering upon silences and repetitions, Beckett doesn’t follow a traditional theatrical form and procedure in writing his plays.

Detailed explanation-5: -The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a modernist tragicomedy. The play embraces the experimental form valued in modernist literature, and it also values language and thought above any narrative action.