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They have 2 windows, 1 to a waste land, 1 to the sea, rough picture of destroyed. There are 4 people left, three cannot move in a basement. There’s no hope anymore, it begins after the catastrophe, after the end of the world by atomic explosion. Its nearly bare stage and disconnected dialogue defied the conventions of realistic theater.Ī powerful and symbolic portrayal of the human condition as one of ignorance and delusion. It fuses music-hall comedy with philosophic musings about the nature of human existence. Pozzo drives the oppressed and burdened Lucky on the end of a rope. They amuse themselves with various bouts of repartee and wordplay, they are for a while diverted by the arrival of the whip-cracking Pozzo. However they spend each day waiting for him and trying to understand the world they live in. It turns out they do not know whether he actually exists. They are waiting for Godot, not sure who he is, whether he will show up to meet them at all. Two tramps Vladimir and Estragon are waiting near a tree on an isolated country road.
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All his plays are penetrated by visual and verbal poetry which even potentiate the hopelessness. In all his plays he needs only minimum of theatre means. Beckett tries again and again to find symbol for emptiness, horror and aimlessness of life. Self-confident pose against enemy Cosmos.
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Speech - in Beckett it is something like the last refuge. Comicality, misunderstanding, no communication is possible. These deaths had big influence over him.īeckett creates a full range of styles which seem not to match together and seem that there’s no logical connection. His mother died when he was finishing it. Their language gives the play tragic and energetic effect. They are expecting him but they don’t know anything about him. Two vagabonds in a waste land are waiting for Godot to come. He abandons any realistic features and instead of it he offers the very basic plot and setting. In spite of it, Beckett’s characters have relationship with surroundings and try to save themselves before destructions. The loneliness is important but the present is more painful. That in society we only try to forget the death and that we cannot escape it. The horrors of WWII - loneliness, anxiety, loss of identity, historic and literal perspective. Murphy - There is still some plot, dada, surrealism, hints of absurdity. Wrote verses, novels, short stories till the end of war, essays. Wrote in French and then translated it into English. dramatist of Irish origin, friend of J. In the 1950s came from France to England wave of absurd drama.