Existentialism in waiting for godot
- 1. NAME : PANDYA MEHAL JITENDRABHAI ROLL NO :13 SEM: 3 ENROLLMENT NO : 2069108420200029 SUBJECT : Mordinst Literature TOPIC : Existentialism in Waiting for Godot DATE :1/12/2020 BEACH -22019-2021 E-MAIL ID -MEHALPANDYA252@GMAIL.COM SUBMITTED TO – DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH M. K. BHAVANAGAR UNIVERSITY
- 2. Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot is play by Samuel Beckett. It is very interesting play by him. This play with simple words but with deep meaning. It was published in 1952. Waiting for Godot is a one of the great example of absurd play. The importance of the play as an existential drama lies in the multiplicity of meanings which critics have discovered in it.
- 3. Characters in waiting for Godot Lucky Estragone VladimirPozzo
- 4. Existentialism is a philosophical theory that people are free agents who have control over their choices and actions. Existentialists believe that society should not restrict an individual's life or actions and that these restrictions inhibit free will and the development of that person's potential. Existentialism
- 6. In the waiting for Godot both characters are waiting for Godot. Now quetion is who is Godot? We have eagerness to know Godot is female or male? Where he/she live band many other questions are raising with the reading of play. It is a topic for thinking upon existentialism. Some say that, “ There is something misleading about this printed text “ In the play they both waiting for some inevitable but what is it? Sometime our thinking tell us that it is just elusive and illustration nothing more then that.
- 7. Vladimir and Estragone, who are the raw substance so commonly dressed up in accident of occupation, role, relationship. They are unacommodated men so ‘ Time is stopped ‘ for Vladimir but for Estragone and Vladimir communnicat and they ask questions each other and Estragon said that “ we have always find something, to give the impression we exist? There is a one dialogue that “Never neglect the little things of life” Kierkegaard was a philosoper and he gave his contribution in existeialism. So he reflect that “ to exist means to be in process of becoming “so we can say that waiting is the process for them, a process of becoming through which they seem to realize that they exist.
- 8. According to Kenner, “ The play constructa about its two actors the conditions and the quality of waiting to much so that no one blame the dtramtist’s perverse whim for the withholding of Godot and the disappointment of their expectations. “ The long waiting for Godot and who does never appear throughout the play, but there is entry of boy who is the messnager of Godot and he said that “ He will come tomorrow. Sir. .”
- 9. Waiting for Godot” is indeed a play that demonstrates theme of existentialism. Two main characters of the play named as Vladimir and Estragon are put into an absurd situation just like humans have been put in the world without any purpose. In whole play they do nothing to change their miserable condition. Existentialism emphasizes on the practice of doing something and creating a purpose while accepting existence in this world. Hence, they have freewill to make their life better.
- 10. They can come out of this situation and can give their lives a meaning but they do nothing. Estragon’s dialogue is notable in this regard. He says: “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” He knows that his situation is awful
- 11. Pozzo and Lucky both are important character in this play. In act 2 pozzo said that , When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- 12. Conclusion BOY: What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir? VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw me... Through the characters In play Samuel Beckett draws the picture of human. He gave the example of human mind. Waiting is a desire according to me in this play. Through that they come to know about the life and absurdity of life. The law of nature will continues going on. Necessary thing can be absurd and absurd thing can necessary at any time.
- 13. Work citation Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove Press, 1954. Brazil, Kevin. “Beckett, Painting and the Question of ‘the Human.’” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 36, no. 3, 2013, pp. 81–99. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.36.3.81. Accessed 1 Dec. 2020. Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism is a Humanism Sharma, Anurag. “‘WAITING FOR GODOT:" A Beckettian Counterfoil to Kierkegaardian Existentialism.” Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, vol. 2, 1993, pp. 275–280. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25781175. Accessed 1 Dec. 2020.