Topical and Universal Element in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".

Title: Topical and Universal Element in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".
Category: Literature / European Literature | Words: 1345 | Pages: 5.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Topical and Universal Element in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".

In spite of the fact that "Waiting for Godot" has no spectacle, no star-part, no sex, no love or romance, no traditional story, no melodrama and action of the traditional drama, no emotions and not even a woman character, it has proved itself to be a world-theatre and a gripping and popular play and it has occupied the minds of its readers and play-goers. Though the nightmarish post-war world is the immediate cause (background) for …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…as the opening one and the characters have been neither presented nor explained when the final curtain falls. Though the play frustrates completely in respect of the traditional or age-old ideas concerning drama, it keeps the audience glued to their chairs until the final curtain falls. It is really astonishing for a play so enigmatic, so exasperating, so complex, so uncompromising in its refusal to conform to any of the accepted ideas of dramatic construction.

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