Category: Drama

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and The Goat by Edward Albee are plays characterised by their genre-bending approach to storytelling. In the tradition of tragedy and comedy, both authors focalise on producing an emotional response in their audiences in a manner that recalls Barthes’ Death of the Author. Becketts play seeks to expose reality…

In Samuel Becketts absurdist play, Waiting for Godot, written in 1949, through the individual characterisations and the portrayal of the relationship between Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett provides insight into the human condition through an emphasis on the interdependency present within relationships and its subsequent effects on individuals. During the period of time following World War…

VLADIMIR: [&] the best would be to take advantage of Pozzos calling for help  POZZO: Help! VLADIMIR: To help him  ESTRAGON: We help him? VLADIMIR: In anticipation of some tangible return. ESTRAGON: And suppose he  VLADIMIR: Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! [Pause. Vehemently.] Let us do something, while…

Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on. ( Beckett &&&..) There is no doubt that the absurd playwrights are looking for ways to discover the new meaning of life from the apparent inconsistency, meaninglessness and uncertainty…

This essay will analyse and discuss the duality of pairing, doubling and binary oppositions in Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot is an ambiguity which permits for a variety of readings, the play consisting of many interpretations that can exist alongside one another without being jointly exclusive. Duality is an important part of…

In the World War II, People lost their almost everything and the there is a gloomy life in thisperiod. Some play writers transferred this into literature by writing theatre, novel and poem. After all lived things, The Theatre of the Absurd showed up. The Theatre of the Absurd (French:théâtre de l’absurde[teQt(Y) dY lapsyd]) is a…

Many question the relativity and the importance of philosophical theories and actions expressed throughout various philosophical works. Many also elude the perception of humanism. In Existentialist Philosophy (EP) by Nathan Oaklander, in the text from Albert Camus, it had stated, Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their…

The distinction of clock time and subjective time is one of the themes found in Waiting For Godot. Time in the play is subject to ones mental condition. Didi and Gogos perception of time differs from other characters, as they doubt their very own concept of time. This leads them to doubt their very own…

All children bless their parents in their own unique way. Hesters only daughter Pearl continues as a true blessing in Hesters life. Hester the wearer of the Scarlet letter is punished for committing adultery with the minister. The setting in the book takes place in the 1600s Boston in a Puritan society so the people…

Within the realms of fairy-tales and dramatic plays, characters have always been depicted as villains or heroes. Villains are conquered, while heroes are triumphant. August Wilson examines this with regards to the protagonist, Troy Maxson, in his play Fences, where a bold and bitter black man alienates those around him, cheats on his wife and…