This document discusses the theme of nothingness in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It notes that the play features two central characters, Estragon and Vladimir, who do nothing but wait throughout the two acts. The setting and characters' dialogues portray a sense of meaningless and nothing happening. While some minor changes occur between acts, like a tree sprouting leaves, otherwise nothing significant transpires in the play. The document analyzes how nothingness pervades the play and creates its absurdist nature with no real beginning, middle or end to the plot.

1. Theme of “ Nothingness ” in waiting for Gogot
Name : Mansi Parmar
Roll No : 16
M A , Sem 3
Paper No : 9 , The Modernist Literature
Email Id : mansibaparmar212@gmail.com
Submitted To : Department of English
Maharaja Krishanakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

3.  Samuel Beckett was born in
1906 .
 He was a novelist , poet,
French and English playwright .
 He is considered one of the
last Modernist writers.
 Also Considered one of the
fathers of the postmodernist
movement .
Introduction

4. Conti...
 He was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1969 .
 His famous work like :
 “ Proust ”
 “ Waiting for Godot ”
 He was died in 1989 .

5. Estragon
Lucky
Godot
Vladimir
Pozzo
Boy
Characters

7. Hope
Nothingness
Themes
Main
Theme

8. Suffering
Choices
Dependency
Friendship
Sub Theme

10. “ Nothingness ” in this play
 In this play there are two acts .
 Estragon and Vladimir these two characters are
central in this play .
 In this play beginning with two characters that are
doing nothing .
 And as same it ends with those two characters .
 So, we can say that in this play there is no beginning
and no end .

11. Conti...
 In this play there are five characters and they show
things that nothingness with help of their dialogues .
 And we can not find anything sometimes they speak
worthless dialogues .
 The setting of the play is influenced by a mode of
nothingness .
 Here in this play everything is fuelled by the sense of
‘nothingness ’ .In fact ,here nothing creates everything .

13. Conti..
“ Nothing to be done ”. And while play such nothing is
significant happens .

15.  So we can say that nothing is special happens in neither
the play nor we observe any significant change in setting .
Though a change occurs but it is only that now the tree has
sprouted out four or five leaves . “ Nothing happens
,nobody comes , nobody goes , it’s awayful ”.The beginning
,middle and end of the play do not rise up to the level of a
good play , so it is a absurd .
Conclusion