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Waiting For GodotDrama and Theatre Arts

A2 Drama and Theatre Arts

Task:
Identify the themes and structure/form of Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot and discuss how these confirm the play belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd genre.

Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot follows various abstract themes such as religion, human behaviour and anxious loneliness.

Waiting for Godot is described as ‘a dramatic action in which events, characters and settings represent abstract or spiritual meanings. This is clearly demonstrated in the ‘bizarre, increasingly mystifying conversations’ between Pozzo and Lucky and of course Vladimir and Estragon. For example a quotation from Pozzo;
“The second is never so sweet… as the first I mean, but its sweet just the same…” and “He can no longer endure my presence. I am perhaps not particularly human, but who cares?”.
Such words and phrases suggest a very bizarre and abstract idea to the play.
Also, in relation to the spiritual meanings in the play...

Posted by: Tricia F. Doyle

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