Absurdity in play (waiting for Godot) and Absurdity in life

Absurdity in play (waiting for Godot) and Absurdity in life

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  TOPIC : ABSURDITYIN PLAY (WAITING FOR GODOT) AND ABSUDITY IN OUR LIFE Prepared by : Jasani Nidhi Enrolment number : 14101018 Email : [email protected] Paper : Modernist literature Department of English M.K.B. University
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  Introduction • Samuel BarclayBeckett . • 13 April 1906 - 22 December. • Irish avant-garde novelist. • Play wright, theater director and poet.
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  Waiting for Godot It is written by Samuel Beckett.  There are two acts in this play.  There are six characters in this play.  We can find nothingness in this play.  There is use of one place in this play.
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  What is Absurdity? An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, awkward, ineptitude, ridiculous etc...  “The condition of state in which human exist in a meaningless irrational universe where in people live without purposes or meaning.”
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   In theplay practically nothing happened, no development is to be found, there is no beginning and no end. No Beginning No Middle No End  The play Theatre of absurd lack a logical and conventional structure which is the representation of absurd predicament.
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  Characteristics of the“Theatre of Absurd” Hopelessness in characters Absurd or unexplained ending Comic Scenes Importance of Repetition Elements of “ Existentialism “
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  Absurdity in Waitingfor Godot  This play belongs to the tradition of the theater of absurd.  It is unconventional in not depicting any dramatic conflicts.  In fact this play comes under “Theater of Absurd”. It is a kind of tragic comedy and unlike truth about life.
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  Absurdity in Life In our life we can see that we are doing same things.  We have no choices. (In waiting)  The play and our life both are similar.  We found our self in character ofVladimir and Estragon.  Hope for tomorrow.Tomorrow never comes.  Waiting is endless proses.
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  Conclusion…  We knowthat our life Is absurd, the is nothing inn our life yet, we seems to be enjoying our life as like “Sisyphus”. Death will come, we can’t escape from it. So we have to enjoyed it …..