This document provides a comparison of the works "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett and "Atrapi" by Dhruv Bhatta. Both works explore themes of waiting, meaninglessness, and existential questions. The characters Vladimir and Estragon from "Waiting for Godot" and the dog Sarmey from "Atrapi" both wait for salvation or meaning, representing the human condition. While the works differ in genre and style, addressing these universal human themes through absurdism and humor, respectively.

1. ‘Waiting for Godot’ and
‘Atrapi’ (અતરાપી)
BY NIDHI JETHAVA

2. Table of Content
• Comparison of both work
• Main purpose of both work
• Character evaluation
• Questions connected the human life

3. Prepared by :- Nidhi Jethava
Batch :- 20-22 MKBU English
Department
Paper :- 107, 20th Century Literature II
Roll Number :- 13
Enrollment Number :- 30692064200009
Email Id :- jethavanidhi8@gamil.com

4. Introduction

5. Basic Information
• ‘The waiting for Godot’ is written by
Samuel Beckett’.
• Originally written in French En
attendant Godot.
• Text composed between 1948 and
1949.
• The English language version
premiered in London in 1955.
• Absurd Drama
• ‘Atrapi’ is written by Dhruv Bhatta,
novelist and poet from Gujarat, India.
• Written in Gujarati.
• Published in 2012
• Novel

6. Theme of the both works
Waiting for Godot
• Humor and Absurd
• Waiting , Boredom and Nihilism
• Modernism and Postmodernism.
• Time
• Humanity, Companionship, Suffering
and Dignity.
Atrapi
• Humor
• Meaning of life
• Reality vs Fancy
• Animal as human
• Rural life
• Beginning of modernism

7. Character Evaluation of Vladimir & Estragon
vs Sarmey
• We — the entire human race — have
become Vladimir and Estragon, the
happy-sad/anxious-silly/hopeful-
bleak duo of “Waiting for Godot,”
• Vladimir and Estragon, we make do,
we fill the time, sing, dance, exercise.
Our moods, like theirs, swing. We
argue; we convince ourselves that,
despite everything, we are happy.
After all, we have each other.

8. Character of sarmey
• Sarmey is the dog, who is the
protagonist of the novel.
• He wants Salvation
• Somewhere his character is like lord
Krishna.
• He said ‘ Gyanam Bandhyate’.

9. Waiting in both work
Vladimir & Estragon
• Both are waiting for salvation
• How to get salvation? Drama that the
story of two thieves. Vladimir: Our
Savior. Two thieves. One is supposed
to have been saved and the other…
dammed. Estragon: Saved from what?
Vladimir: Hell. (Beckett, 2006, p. 242)

10. Sarmey
• Sarmey is not waiting for anything.
• He believes in Karma theory.
• He know there is nothing in life
and that’s why he never attached
with anyone

11. So what ?
The both work has Universal theme
Both are discussing the question connected with human existence.
Some of the question are unpredictable about the life and human.

12. Citation
• Bhatt, Dhruv. Atrapi . Gurjar, 2012.
• [Canada] Xu, Zhiwei. (2006). Introduction to Christian Theology. Beijing: China Social Sciences.
• D. Peter, Vladimir’s Carrot: Modern Drama and the modern imagination, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 18.
• G. Tigani, ''The parallel between Christ and Lucky'' www. Samuel-beckett.net,
godot_greg, Yale University, pp. 1-4.
• Kavad, Hiren. "Atrapi Book-Review ." Matrubharti (n.d.): 1
• Levingston, Stevan. "Like Vladimir and Estragon, we wait for our Godot, And wait ." The Washington Post (2020).
• Sun, Caixia. (2005). Western Modernist Literature and Holy Bible. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts/ By Samuel Beckett. First English edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1956.
• Zeng, Chuanhui. (1994). The Stories of the Holy Bible. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.