The document summarizes Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It discusses how Waiting for Godot exemplifies the absurdist theater movement through its portrayal of meaningless waiting, lack of plot progression, and ambiguous ending. Some key absurdist elements in the play include the futile and hopeless waiting of Vladimir and Estragon for a character named Godot who never arrives, their circular conversations that lead nowhere, and the uncertainty surrounding Godot's identity and purpose. The repetitive and unresolved nature of the play reflects the absurdity and meaninglessness of life.

1. Name: Sagar B Vaghela
Roll No: 32
Enrollment No: 2069108420180052
Paper No: 9 The Modernist Litrature
Topic: Waiting for Godot as an absurd theatre
with
examples of Indian T.V serials
Batch: 2017-19
Email Id: sagarvaghela2020@gmail.com
Submitted to: S.B.Gardi Department of English

2. ☆ Waiting for Godot is a play written by samuel
Beckett.
☆ Samuel Backett born in 13 April 1906.
☆ He was novelist, poet, theatre director, essayist
Play wright
☆ His famous works :
- Murphy (1938)
- Molloy (1951)
- Waiting fot Godot (1953)
- Endgame (1957)
- How It is (1961)

3.  The word ‘Absurd’ means meaningless, something silly and
ridiculous, and foolishness
 The theatre of the absurd also known as a ‘New theatre’
 Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay ‘Theatre of the
absurd’
 Theatre of absurd originates from Dadaism, nonsense poetry, and
avant – grade art.
 Absurd theatre is intended to shock the audience.

4.  Futility
 Comic scenes
 Lack of plot
 Meaningless of life
 Hoplessness in characters
 Nonsense language
 Diffrent from Traditional drama
 Unexplained ending

5.  ‘Nothing to be done’
 The play starts with negative connotation. A country road. A tree
Evening is the setting of the play. This setting is lifeless and
ambiguous in term of religion. There are two tramp characters that
cover the whole society. Their personality is totally different.
 Waiting is a meaningless act. We all are waiting for such things. Our
expectation is endless. If one thing get then we wait for next one but
which is the ultimate thing for we wait?
 In the play two characters Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for
Mr. Godot. They do not aware about Mr. Godot like who is? How he
looks? What he is doing? What will happen if Mr. Godot come? They
have only a kind of identity.

6.  Godot is a kind of desire, desire for death or success. It is a
unfulfilled wish. It can be a subject of the play. It is an invisible and
significant character of the play.
 Estragon and Vladimir wants to go but they don’t move an inch
because they are waiting for Godot. They just are passing their time
for waiting. They thought Godot will come tomorrow but tomorrow
never comes. They want to suicide but they expect that he will come.
Their expectation makes them waiting.
 At the end of first act a little boy cone to pass message of Mr. Godot.
He speaks
Mr. Godot told me to tell you he won't come this
evening but surely tomorrow.

7.  The beginning of both act is same, evening falls in to night and moon
rises. It indicates the representation of nature. A few leaves grows it
suggest the change of nature. Everything is goes on changing. It is
for desire. In nothingness there is a meaning. Night indicates
darkness of life but behind the darkness there is light. Sometimes
waiting is nothing but sometimes it is reality of life.
 They are killing their time with questioning and moving. They
decide to suicide but their body insists to live. Somewhere body is
controlling our mind.

8.  No begining, climax and ending
 Same place and time
 Unexplained story
 Nothingnes and empiness

9.  No satisfaction
 Here ending is not conclusion
 Unexplained ending
 A play gives confusion and problems but not solution