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Jun 20, 2011
Book Reports / An analytical study to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. [12]
and here is the following.( The summary of the first part)
Waiting for Godot is one of the most important works of our time. It revolutionized theatre in the twentieth century. It has a great a profound influence on generations of succeeding dramatists, including such renowned contemporary playwrights as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
It is first written in French in 1948 as En Attendant Godot and was published in French in October of 1952 before its first stage production in Paris in January of 1953. Later translated into English by Beckett himself as Waiting for Godot, the play was produced in London in 1955 and in the United States in 1956 and has been produced worldwide.
The play came to be considered an essential example of what Martin Esslin later called "Theatre of the Absurd," a term that Beckett disavowed but which remains a handy description for one of the most important theatre movements of the twentieth century.1
Waiting for Godot is a play in two acts. The Act I begins in the evening on a country road next to a tree. Estragon, an old poor man, is sitting on a low mound trying to remove his boot. His friend, Vladimir, another old man joins him and begin to chat.
From the start the audience can easily know that the two men have known each other for years. It seems that they were once rich, strong and respectable in their community but now they turn to be homeless, weak, and often suicidal. In many occasions both Vladimir and Estragon wonder out loud why they did not kill themselves years ago! They consider the possibility of doing it today. Yet, they are still having a hope which encourage them waiting for someone they call "Godot". No body can stand waiting and Estragon and Vladimir also don't. Thus, as to avoid feeling sad and depressed of waiting, they share conversation, food, and memories.
Later on, two other elderly men, Pozzo and Lucky, arrive on the scene. For the first sight, it is clear that Pozzo is the master, and Lucky is the slave. Upon command, the slave dances and thinks out loud for the entertainment of the others, until he is forcibly silenced by his master.
After Lucky and Pozzo depart, a boy arrives to tell Estragon and Vladimir that Godot will not be there today, but will be there tomorrow. The boy leaves and Estragon and Vladimir continue waiting and suffering with a hope that Godot will meet them tomorrow.
and here is the following.( The summary of the first part)
Waiting for Godot is one of the most important works of our time. It revolutionized theatre in the twentieth century. It has a great a profound influence on generations of succeeding dramatists, including such renowned contemporary playwrights as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
It is first written in French in 1948 as En Attendant Godot and was published in French in October of 1952 before its first stage production in Paris in January of 1953. Later translated into English by Beckett himself as Waiting for Godot, the play was produced in London in 1955 and in the United States in 1956 and has been produced worldwide.
The play came to be considered an essential example of what Martin Esslin later called "Theatre of the Absurd," a term that Beckett disavowed but which remains a handy description for one of the most important theatre movements of the twentieth century.1
Waiting for Godot is a play in two acts. The Act I begins in the evening on a country road next to a tree. Estragon, an old poor man, is sitting on a low mound trying to remove his boot. His friend, Vladimir, another old man joins him and begin to chat.
From the start the audience can easily know that the two men have known each other for years. It seems that they were once rich, strong and respectable in their community but now they turn to be homeless, weak, and often suicidal. In many occasions both Vladimir and Estragon wonder out loud why they did not kill themselves years ago! They consider the possibility of doing it today. Yet, they are still having a hope which encourage them waiting for someone they call "Godot". No body can stand waiting and Estragon and Vladimir also don't. Thus, as to avoid feeling sad and depressed of waiting, they share conversation, food, and memories.
Later on, two other elderly men, Pozzo and Lucky, arrive on the scene. For the first sight, it is clear that Pozzo is the master, and Lucky is the slave. Upon command, the slave dances and thinks out loud for the entertainment of the others, until he is forcibly silenced by his master.
After Lucky and Pozzo depart, a boy arrives to tell Estragon and Vladimir that Godot will not be there today, but will be there tomorrow. The boy leaves and Estragon and Vladimir continue waiting and suffering with a hope that Godot will meet them tomorrow.
