In this Presentation I have tried to compare the waiting in Waiting for Godot with The most loved American novel , The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

1. WAITING IN WAITING FOR
GODOT AND THE FAULT IN
OUR STARS.
Prepared By: Sima Rathod
Paper: 9 The Modernist Literature
Email Id : rsima144@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English, MKBU

2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AND PLAY
Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel
Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi)
and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of
discussions and encounters while awaiting
Godot, who never arrives.Waiting for Godot is
Beckett’s translation of his own original French-
language play, En attendant Godot, and is
subtitled (in English only) “a tragicomedy in two
acts”.Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish
novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre
director, poet, and literary translator. A resident
of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in
both French and English.

3. MAJOR
CHARACTERS OF
THE PLAY
Estragon
Vladimir
Lucky
Pozo
Godot
Boy

4. WAITING IN
WAITING FOR
GODOT
Patience is Not the ability to wait but the ability to keep
a good attitude while waiting.
In the play Vladimir and Estragon Waits for the Godot,
who never comes and while they were waiting they
even tried to commit Suicide because of the boredom
and nothingness.
They had a platy of time to do something productive
such as they can start earning, get a lavish life and
fulfill their dreams but all they did was just waiting and
wasted their time in meaningless conversations and
tricks.

5. WAITING,,, GOOD OR BAD??
• Waiting is a test of patience,
practicality and rational mind.
• One needs to cultivate habit of great
patience as well as calm mind.
• Waiting needs determination and
positive attitude towards Life.
• Waiting is a kind of a risk where
everything is uncertain but still one
dares to wait.
• Waiting can also leads to anxiety,
sadness, boredom, anger and
sometimes to suicide also.
• Even in the play Vladimir and
Estragon also attempts Suicide.

6. KEY ASPECTS OF WAITING
• Hope
• Friendship/ Companionship
• Dependency
• Choices
• Suffering
• Absurdity

7. THE THEME OF
WAITING IN WAITING
FOR GODOT AND IN
THE NOVEL THE
FAULT IN OUR STARS

8. Hope in Waiting for Godot And Fault in our Stars
• Reflected by the word hope
Important but uncertain Reflects
less action Hopeless destiny of
human race They wonder if they are
waiting at the right place or not.
• Hazel was waiting for her death,
Everyday routine life, Reading the
same book again and again She
knew she was dying but where? And
when? No clue, Full of uncertainty

9. Friendship/Companionship
• Vladimir and Estragon are happy to
be part but they choose to be
together ,Did you argue about the
waiting but that keeps them as each
other's companions. Vladimir is the
storyteller and reminder for
Estragon.
• Hazel and Augustus are happy to be
apart but choose to be together
,They also do argue about death and
living but that keeps them going.
Augustus acts as the life force for
Hazel.

10. Choices
• Vladimir and Estragon could be
happy following their own ways but
they need each others company to
pass the time Taken give up waiting
but they didn't they are hoping and
waiting for Godot.
• Hazel and Augustus could be Happy
without each other but they choose
to live together. The they both had a
chance to live each other but they
didn't.

11. Suffering
• Vladimir and Estragon face many
conflicts to feel the waiting time,
• Estragon wanted to quit but Vladimir
insist for waiting
• Hazel and Augustus faced many
conflicts to fulfill their dream to meet
their favorite writer Peter Van
Houghten Hazel wanted to quit but
Augustus insisted to go to
Amsterdam for the fulfillment of her
wish.

12. Absurdity
• Vladimir and Estragon waited for
Godot but he never came, this
shows the harsh reality of Life, the
absurd aspect of life, nothingness of
life.
• When Hazel get a positive ray of
hope for living, Augustus died and
she became alone again, the cycle of
meaninglessness, all their efforts
became meaninglessness and
absurd

13. SO WHAT?
Is Waiting good?
Is waiting bad?
Waiting leads to meaninglessness?
Or……..

14. THANK YOU…

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