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Absurdity in Waiting for Godot
1. Bhatt Prakruti B.
Paper:9 The Modernist
Literature
Topic: Absurdity in Waiting
for Godot
Roll:No:12
Date:-14:10:2013
2. About Absurd Theater
Influence of Camus and Sartre (existentialism)
pessimistic view of man’s existence=
no purpose at all in man’s life, totally absurd
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After 2 world wars, in a world with no religion, with no belief Man is lost
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A BIG existential question
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE????
3. How many Authors in Absurd
Theater ??????????
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Samuel Beckett
Eugene Lonesco
Jean Genet
Harold Pinter
Tom Stoppard
Friedrich
Durrenmatt
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Fernando Arrabal
Vaclav Havel
Edard Aalbee
6. Absurdity in Waiting for Godot
• Vladimir : Let's go.
• Estaragon : Let's go.
(They both dont move.)
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Estragon:why don't we hang ourselves?
Vladimir:with what?
Estragon:you haven't got a bit of rope?
Vladimir:no
Estragon:then we can't
Vladimir:oh,wait,there is my belt
Vladimir:it's too short
Estragon:you could hang on to my legs
Vladimir:and who would hang onto
mine?
Estragon:true
8. • Vladimir : Where are your
boots?
• Estragon : I must have thrown
them away.
• Vladimir : When?
• Estrgon : I don't know.
• Vladimir : Why?
• Estragon : (Exasperated). I don't
know why I don't know!
• Vladimir : No, I mean why did
you throw them away?
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Estragone:What is it?
Vladimir:I don't know. A
willow.
Estragon:(Looking at the
tree).What is it?
Vladimir:It's tree.
Estragon:Yes, but what
kind?
Vladimir:I dont't know. A
willow.
D:Videos on EducationWaiting for Godot2.mp4