Waiting For Godot
Discuss the Ways in which Form and Visual Element of Waiting For Godot Reveal Beckett’s view of the Meaning of Existence.On the surface Waiting for Godot is a hopeless play and was summed up by Jean Anouilh ‘Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it is terrible’. However, Waiting for Godot is also a play primarily about hope in a hopeless situation. The act of waiting for hope to arrive. The subject of the play quickly becomes an example of how to pass the time in a situation which offers no hope. Beckett’s meaning of existence therefore revolves around hope, hopelessness and chance. He uses various concepts and objects to represent tis ideas such as the hat, the tree, the boots and the bible. The meaning of the human life is an unanswerable question as it varies from person to person. Existentialism is an idea raised in this play, that is a theory emphasising the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining his or her own development. The underlying premise of Waiting for Godot is that chance is the determining factor behind existence and thus human life is controlled by chance. This notion is established early on in the play when Vladimir mentions the parable of the bible.
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Approximate Word count = 1568
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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