A Study of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

Mitalee Mayuresh Gangal

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6156

A Study of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

Author(s)	Mitalee Mayuresh Gangal
Country	India
Abstract	The theatre of the Absurd includes plays wherein humans are mere puppets full of irrational and illogical thoughts. From Aeschylus to Ibsen, the artists aimed at constructing meaning out of chaos and at gaining a momentary stay at confusion. So drama was then a temporary escape from the utter meaninglessness of life, a brief period when the audiences could dismiss their tensions and enter into a fictional world based on the assumption that man was a rational animal. But, ‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ ruthlessly shattered these notions, advocating instead their view of human being as an isolated existence and to represent life as it moves from nothingness whence it came to nothingness where it must go. The same notion is very much significant in Shakespeare’s line: “Life is a tale told by an idiot Full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” (Act V, Scene 5, Macbeth) Martin Esslin provided justification for the emergence of this new wave in the theatre, in his book: “The Theatre of the Absurd” which attempts to make man face up the world in which he lives and human conditions as they really are. As it was believed that the real dignity of man lies in his ability to face the reality in its senselessness, to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions and to laugh at it. This term is applied to a group of dramatists in the 1950s who shared the same predicament of man in the universe. Incidentally, the word ‘absurd’ is used in music which denotes a ‘jarring note’ or ‘discord’. This research paper is an attempt to study Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” a tragicomedy in two acts, published in 1952, originally in French as En attendant Godot and first produced in 1953. It is a true innovation in drama that successfully depicts the search for meaning in a world of chaos.
Keywords	ABSURD, DISCORD, UNCERTAINITY, ILLUSIONS, AMBUIGUITY, ESCAPE, MEANINGLESSNESS, ASSUMPTIONS, FUTILITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On	2023-09-06
Cite This	A Study of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” - Mitalee Mayuresh Gangal - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6156
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6156
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gsp9dz

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