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This document provides a comparison between the plays "The Swamp Dwellers" by Wole Soyinka and "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. It discusses similarities in their settings, characters, and themes of absurdity, hopelessness, and waiting. Both plays feature characters waiting endlessly for someone or something that never arrives. While the characters experience despair, the document notes that Soyinka and Beckett suggest that humanity still has the ability to find meaning through free will and choice.
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The document provides an overview of the Theatre of the Absurd and Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It explains that Theatre of the Absurd explores the absurdity of existence in a godless universe where life has no purpose or meaning. Waiting for Godot follows two homeless men, Vladimir and Estragon, who pass the time waiting endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Their dialogue shows how they try to maintain their friendship and identity through memory and conversation to avoid confronting the meaninglessness of their existence.
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1. The document summarizes Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It provides context about the play's publication in 1952 and classification as "Theater of the Absurd."
2. The setting and characters are used to represent the human existence and demonstrate truths about the human condition, like the absurdity of life and the uncertainty of time.
3. Major themes explored in the play include the meaninglessness of life, the futility of seeking meaning in a meaningless existence, and the fact that humans are thrown into the world without purpose.
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Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett that explores existentialist themes of meaningless and absurdity. It focuses on two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who pass time waiting beside a tree for the arrival of someone named Godot, but Godot never appears. The play has no linear plot and features tragi-comic elements as the characters endure their futile wait and discuss their suffering. Religious, political, and psychoanalytical interpretations of the play have connected it to themes of faith, capitalism, and mental states.
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- 2. Urban and rural life in Swamp Dwellers The play open and end in this hut. Unity of Time and Action is also Followed Waiting for Godot evening time, counrty raod, a tree. Unity of Time, Place action is not followed. Setting
- 3. Master and Slave Relationship Waiting for Godot Pozzo Lucky Swamp Dwellers Kadiye Blind Begger
- 4. What is Absurd Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "Theatre of the Absurd.“ Albert Camus uses the in his 1960 essay "Theatre of the Absurd." Absurd Theatre believes that humanity’s plight is purposeless in an existence, which is out of harmony the its surroundings.
- 5. Beckett and Soyinka also uses the technique of creating very important characters that never appear on stage, like the Serpent and Awuchike.
- 6. Theme of absurdity Waiting for Godot The Swamp Dwellers Godot Awuchike Never comes on the stage Never appears on the stage No any information about him. Son of Makuri
- 7. Hopelessness The play revolves around Vladimir and Estragon and their pitiful wait for hope to arrive. They are waiting without hope for a deliverance from a being in whom they do not really believe. For Acheson, Waiting for Godot is an invective against Christian hope since the modern man, like Didi and Gogo wait endlessly for Godot who does not come.
- 8. Acholonu observes that “…. Soyinka’s themes are echoes of Samuel Beckett. His characters are gripped by the same hopelessness in which Beckett’s characters find themselves”
- 9. John Leeland Kundert-Gibbs, “hope or expectation springs from a sense of lack, emptiness or insecurity” . He consequently identifies Godot with the void at the centre of being in his Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory. Following his theory therefore, it is neither the Zen Buddhism, nor Godot, nor the Serpent of the Swamps, nor Muhammad that imposes its essence on humanity but humanity's yearning to fill a void by imposing a spiritual pattern on itself.
- 10. The similarity in terms of setting, characterisation, and themes among all others are quite evident in the two plays. The central issue in both plays is on the question of salvation.
- 11. The play end in sadness as the lure of the city and the betrayal of traditional virtues rob the aged Alu and Makuri of their two sons. There is not physical death of any character but there are several death metaphorical deaths. The Swamp Dwellers articulates a sense of the disorder of human life.
- 12. In the nature of absurdist ideals, Soyinka tries to create a drama that depicts..The struggle of human imagination against religious complacency, moral apathy, and social conformity”.
- 13. Theme of Waiting Waiting for Godot The Swamp Dwellers Vladimir and Estragon waiting for godot Alu and Makuri waiting for Awuchike Godot never appears in the play Not appears in the play
- 14. • Beckett and Soyinka Total despair waiting for god. Their god is not dead They have to make choice. The negative attributes of the Kadiye give the impression that although Soyinka is trying to depicts a “ people for whom God is dead” . The Beggar’s continual reference to Allah suggests that God is not dead.
- 15. Thank You