Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurdist play?

 Samuel Becket's "Waiting for Godot" written in French 1948, is a play dedicated tothe absurd. This work based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and the search for order brings the individual into conflict with the universe. "Waiting for Godot" is the best example of absurd literature where leafless tree and no development of plot show human condition.

So, this play totally deals with the life of a modern man and its purposeless life so through this article, we look into the impact of absurdism in "Waiting for Godot". According to absurdist, "there is no meaning in life. The life is permeated men but there is no man. Human life is like a bubble."

Waiting for Godot is a landmark in modem drama. ,When it premiered in Paris, its originality-stunned audiences; no one had seen or heard anything like it before. Initially, some were disgusted; some were puzzled; and some were wildly I enthusiastic. Within a short time, audiences came to the theatre prepared for a wholly new dramatic experience and went away with praises for Samuel Beckett. Let us now | I have a look at the distinct aspects of Waiting for Godot so as to highlight ‘the devices | which made it an Avant grade play.

The Austere Stage Setting | Compared to the elaborate stage setting in other playsin your course, you will notice | that in Waiting for Godot, the stage is almost bare and shorn of stage properties.

This 1. is characteristic of Beckett's plays. See the stage-setting in plays like Endgame, Happy Days, Krapp 's Last Tape, etc.. | : Compared to the stage-setting in some of his own plays the one in Waiting for Godot, | is much barer : an open road, a mound of earth and a bare tree. | | Read other plays of Becker to get an idea of stage setting in them and their / significance for the theme, action and plot of the plays.

Tramps as protagonists in Godot Have a close look at the protagonists in the plays you have studied. Notice the gradual transformation in the idea of the protagonist over centuries fiom Kings, Princes, heroes to the common man and even tramps. For example, Prince Hamlet in the play by the same name, again, Dr. Faustus in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, to Professor Higgins and Flower Girl in Shaw's Pygmalion and finally, the two tramps in Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

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