1. The document discusses Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" and whether its essence can be summarized as "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful." 2. "Waiting for Godot" is Beckett's most famous play about two characters, Estragon and Vladimir, who wait under a tree for someone named Godot who never arrives. 3. The play explores themes of existentialism and nothingness through the characters' repetitive actions and conversations where nothing seems to happen or change.

1. Topic : “ Nothing happens, nobody comes,
nobody goes , it’s awful.” Is this essence the
play ‘Waiting for Godot’?
Presented by Jayshree Solanki
M.A.(English) Sem : 3
Paper no : 9
Paper Name :The Modernist Literature
Roll No : 10
E-mail Id : Solankijayshree122@gmail.com
Submitted : SMT S.B.Gardi M.K. Bhavnagar
University

2. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant garde
novelist, playwright,theatre director and poet, who
lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote
in both English and French.

3. Twentieth century Irish
novelist,playwright penned the play
‘waiting for Godot’. In 1969 ,he was
awarded the Nobel prize for literature.
His first and most renowned dramatic
work, Waiting for Godot which has become
one of the most frequently discussed and
influential plays in the history of
theatre.

4. This book provides and introductory study of
Beckett’s most famous play, dealing not just
with the four main characters but with the
pairings that they form, and the implications of
these pairing for the very idea of characters in
the play.

5. In the setting “ A country road, A
tree, evening ” have viewed as ambiguity
that is an invitation to development.
Contrast between ambiguity and
specificity is further distorted by the
multiple different theories behind the
intention.

6. Estragon, sitting on a low mound near a
tree, is struggling to take off his boots
and temporarily gives up his effort ,
feeling exhausted.

7. Struggle and fail again
 Estragon resumes the struggle and fails again
 Vladimir appears and Estragon says:
 Estragon says : “Nothing to be done.”

8. Vladimir amuses us by taking off his hat,
peering inside it, putting it on again, and
then echoing Estragon’s words:
“ Nothing to be done.”

9.  The Boots are an element of Estragon ,while
the hat is an element ofVladimir.
 Just as the hat is representative ofVladimir's
role as a thinker and philosopher, the boots
show us that Estragon is the more “earthy.”
 Character more emotional, more concrete
thinker.

10. Language expresses the nothingness
 “One day like other day, one day he went dumb,
one day I went blind, one day we’ll go deaf;
one day we were born, one day we shall die,
the same day, the same second.”
The language of play expresses the nothingness of
human life.

11.  Estragon at one point says,” Nothing happens,
nobody comes ,nobody goes, it’s awful !”
 At other point Estragon thus expresses his misery:
“ All my lousy life I’ve crawled about in the mud!
and you talk to me about scenery!
You and your landscapes!
Tell me about the worms!”

12. So, we can say that entire play “
Nothing happens, Nobody comes Nobody
goes, it’s awful!” Its happens twice
in play.