Waiting....Samuel Becket's Godot
Title: Waiting....Samuel Becket's Godot
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 648 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Waiting....Samuel Becket's Godot
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 648 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Life is occupied by waiting. In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becket presents the suffering of the human condition. Godot is about two beings who talk about nothing, experience the drudgery of life, complain that they do not do anything, meet a few people, think about hanging themselves, and then do it all over again. The existentialist style by Godot is comparable to T.S. Eliot's works. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Hollow
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theme. This eternal waiting is what makes the human condition so deplorable and they also attest that existence is nonexistence.
The finality of life and the futility of it all is the tenor in Godot and T.S. Eliot's work. Both deal with the frivolity of life, and the moral "being is suffering." The message that appears from them is to do something with life, otherwise it will end up how it started - nothingness.