1. Absurdity In Play (Waiting For Godot) And
Absurdity In Our Life
Name : Sheikh Nusratjaha R.
Sem:3
R0ll no:26
Enrollment no:2069108420180047
Email id:nususheikh1@gmail.com
Paper no:12-A English Language Teaching
Batch:2017-2019
Submitted to: Department of English MKBU Bhavnagar
2. Introduction
Samuel Barclay Beckett .
13 April 1906 - 22
December 1989.
Irish avant-garde
novelist.
Play wright, theater
director and poet.
3. Waiting for Godot
It is written by Samuel Beckett.
There are two acts in this play.
There are six characters in this play.
We can find nothingness in this play.
There is use of one place in this play.
4. What is Absurdity?
An absurdity is a thing that is extremely
unreasonable, awkward, ineptitude,
ridiculous etc...
"The condition of state in which human
exist in a meaningless irrational universe
where in people live without purposes or
meaning."
5. The play Theatre of absurd lack a logical and
conventional structure which is the representation of
absurd predicament.
No beginning
No middle
No end
In the play practically nothing
happened no development is to
be found, there is no beginning
and no end.
6. Characteristics of the "Theatre of Absurd"
Hopelessness in characters
Absurd or unexplained ending
Comic Scenes
Importance of Repetition
Elements of " Existentialism
7. Absurdity in Waiting for Godot
This play belongs to the tradition of the theater of
absurd.
It is unconventional in not depicting any dramatic
conflicts.
In fact this play comes under "Theater of Absurd".
It is a kind of tragic comedy and unlike truth about
life.
8. Absurdity in Life
In our life we can see that we are doing same things.
We have no choices. (In waiting)
The play and our life both are similar.
We found our self in character of Vladimir and
Estragon.
Hope for tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes.
Waiting is endless proses.
9. Conclusion
We know that our life is absurd, nothing in our life,
yet, we seems to be enjoying our life as like
"Sisyphus". Death will come, we can't escape from it.
So we have to enjoyed it
