Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett &Amp;Quot;Nothing Happens, Nobody Comes, Nobody Goes&Amp;Quot; Analysis
Waiting For Godot
By Samuel Beckett
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” How far do you agree?
Initially written in French in 1948 as “En Attendant Godot”, Samuel Beckett’s play was first staged in 1952, in Paris. It represents one of the most important movements of the twentieth century and is an example of the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd”, which had subsequently inspired numerous plays that were based on the idea of an illogical universe.
The plot of the play is fairly simple and is, in fact, purely a development of its title. Its description is rather ambiguous, for while one may think that no action whatsoever takes place throughout the play, another might suppose otherwise. Principally, the story includes two tramps waiting – at first hopefully, but in time with decreasing optimism – for an indefinite, anonymous figure called Godot. Estragon and Vladimir (the tramps) entertain themselves with a seemingly improvised,......
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