Waiting for Godot as an absurd theatre with examples of Indian TV serials

Waiting for Godot as an absurd theatre with examples of Indian TV serials

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  Name: Sagar BVaghela Roll No: 32 Enrollment No: 2069108420180052 Paper No: 9 The Modernist Litrature Topic: Waiting for Godot as an absurd theatre with examples of Indian T.V serials Batch: 2017-19 Email Id: [email protected] Submitted to: S.B.Gardi Department of English
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  ☆ Waiting forGodot is a play written by samuel Beckett. ☆ Samuel Backett born in 13 April 1906. ☆ He was novelist, poet, theatre director, essayist Play wright ☆ His famous works : - Murphy (1938) - Molloy (1951) - Waiting fot Godot (1953) - Endgame (1957) - How It is (1961)
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   The word‘Absurd’ means meaningless, something silly and ridiculous, and foolishness  The theatre of the absurd also known as a ‘New theatre’  Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay ‘Theatre of the absurd’  Theatre of absurd originates from Dadaism, nonsense poetry, and avant – grade art.  Absurd theatre is intended to shock the audience.
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   Futility  Comicscenes  Lack of plot  Meaningless of life  Hoplessness in characters  Nonsense language  Diffrent from Traditional drama  Unexplained ending
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   ‘Nothing tobe done’  The play starts with negative connotation. A country road. A tree Evening is the setting of the play. This setting is lifeless and ambiguous in term of religion. There are two tramp characters that cover the whole society. Their personality is totally different.  Waiting is a meaningless act. We all are waiting for such things. Our expectation is endless. If one thing get then we wait for next one but which is the ultimate thing for we wait?  In the play two characters Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Mr. Godot. They do not aware about Mr. Godot like who is? How he looks? What he is doing? What will happen if Mr. Godot come? They have only a kind of identity.
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   Godot isa kind of desire, desire for death or success. It is a unfulfilled wish. It can be a subject of the play. It is an invisible and significant character of the play.  Estragon and Vladimir wants to go but they don’t move an inch because they are waiting for Godot. They just are passing their time for waiting. They thought Godot will come tomorrow but tomorrow never comes. They want to suicide but they expect that he will come. Their expectation makes them waiting.  At the end of first act a little boy cone to pass message of Mr. Godot. He speaks Mr. Godot told me to tell you he won't come this evening but surely tomorrow.
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   The beginningof both act is same, evening falls in to night and moon rises. It indicates the representation of nature. A few leaves grows it suggest the change of nature. Everything is goes on changing. It is for desire. In nothingness there is a meaning. Night indicates darkness of life but behind the darkness there is light. Sometimes waiting is nothing but sometimes it is reality of life.  They are killing their time with questioning and moving. They decide to suicide but their body insists to live. Somewhere body is controlling our mind.
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   No begining,climax and ending  Same place and time  Unexplained story  Nothingnes and empiness
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   No satisfaction Here ending is not conclusion  Unexplained ending  A play gives confusion and problems but not solution