Thinking Activity : Waiting for Godot

   Hello friends!

This blog about Waiting for Godot by Samuel Buckett.  This task given by our Pro. Dr. Dilip Barad sir.

  About Samuel Buckett :-

He was an Irish writer.He write various forms in English language.He write this form like playwright short story , theaet.. He famous as director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French.He was famous English writer in his time.

 About Waiting for Godot :-

Waiting for Godot is one of work by Samuel Beckett.It is tragic comedy in two parts. It is original play in French language. This is an attendant Godot.In the play we find various character but two character is very important.Vladimir and Estragon.They both are famous as didi and Gogo.They both doing discussion about the Godot and both conversation is very interesting.

The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.The English-language version premiered in London in 1955.It was voted as the "most significant English language play of the 20th century". 

 This is only one scene throughout both acts. Two men are waiting on a country road by a tree. The men are of unspecified origin, though it is clear that they are not English by nationality since they refer to currency as Francs and tell derisive jokes about the English – and in English-language productions the pair are traditionally played with Irish Accents.

The play opens on an outdoor scene of two bedraggled companions.The presents Godot as a baker who ends up being condemned to death by the four main characters.So let's we can try to explain very well with this discussion :

1) In both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would you like to interpret this ‘coming of night and moon’ when actually they are waiting for Godot? 

 In this picture we can see that both wait for Godot and wait also nightfall.They believe that every night and moon come that time we will waiting for Godot.Here we can see the interpretation of night like dark we can compare with the death also.

Nightfall is the correct time. While Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, they also wait for nightfall. For some reason (again, arbitrary and uncertain), they don't have to wait for him once the night has fallen. The classic interpretation is that night is death.This is main concept of the picture in Waiting for Godot.

2) The director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the contours of debris in the setting of the play?

We found setting with scattered fragments, something wrecked or destroyed. After two world wars people's life became miserable. They find nothingness in the world. It inspires many literary writer to portray such images in artistic expression. Buckett was one of them. Setting reflects the influence of World war ll.

3))Do you agree: “The play (Waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: 'No matter what— atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, anything—life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can't kill life." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?

Yes i agree because its representation of absurdity and philosophy an existentialism, that's why display is not negative or Pessimistic just because it's a reflection of hope that at the end of the life there is good thing happened up till and of the last breath we have to wait for something which give us success peace honour or some kind of social important anything which we are waiting for.

4) Do you think that the obedience of Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable?

Pozzo and Lucky can sustain spectator's attention because it shows the universal desire of mastery. Every human wants to be like pozzo, the master. Which Nietzsche called "Ressentiment". Plcan ay shows the culture of mastery of contemporary era. Even if Pozzo was blind, Lucky obediently hands the whip in his hand. it shows the slavish mindset of the people. Even if they are free they can not feel liberty after several years of slavery.So the behavior of lucky is not a newer one.  

5)Do you think that plays like this can better be ‘read’ than ‘viewed’ as it requires a lot of thinking on the part of readers, while viewing, the torrent of dialogues does not give ample time and space to ‘think’? Or is it that the audio-visuals help in better understanding of the play?

 According to me the reading and viewing both can be beneficial and required of the play. Because if you only watch the movie then it can be bore. Because it has the continuous dialogues and less action. For the understanding of the deeper philosophy one has to read the play. only reading also makes you boring because you will not be able to imagine vladimir and Estragon and their useless actions. We have done both the things in the class which enriched our understanding of the play.  

 6)Which of the following sequence you liked the most:

-Vladimir -Estragon killing time in questions and conversations while waiting

-Pozzo – Lucky episode in both acts

- Converstion of Vladimir with the boy

 I like the here conversation between Vladimir and Estragon because both characters are present reality of human being during conversation. Both are create interesting conversation through hat and boots. I like the Estragon’s idea rather than Vladimir because his idea reality of human being and daily life.

Thank you

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