'Waiting For Godot'
The title 'Waiting For Godot' states briefly an innocent or an infantile waiting for someone or something.Here,above in the title,who is 'Godot', is not clarified.So,One should not take this word into account as a person or as an indispensible character of the work.Here, the word waiting causes to happen an Absurdity.If 'Godot' is the God,the whole incident does not seem to be reassured.Instead of God, One can state it is waiting for TIME.Waiting for an appropriate Time to act.The characters are trying to prob into their own identity,and for this they are in search of proper Time.If One puts apart the word 'Godot' ,'Go' as an informal verb indicates to'a turn to do something',and 'dot' means 'scatter over an area'.They want something from their life,they have hope for a proper direction,but due to their poor thinking they are failed. Generally if any one is waiting,at time,he is deffinately eager or optimistic.But here the thing is contraversing,the dialogues are spoken by the characters are pessimistic e.g.
Estragon:"Nothing we can do about it''
Estragon:''We always find something,eh Didi,
to give us the impression we exist.''
These two statements by Estragon,points out to,the inability of the characters to undertake meaningful action according to time.And due to this they have difficulty in believing that even their presence is meaningful or not.So, according to me,IT IS WAITING FOR TIME WITH
PESSIMISTIC THOUGHTS.It is made like this because of the poor,frustrated and monotonous mentality of its characters.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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