Waiting for Godot: An Absurd Play

Samuel Becket's is the pioneer of absurdities. His masterpiece"Waiting for Godot" shows the real absurdity of life. The elements of absurdities are vividly presented here.

It is fairly definable from the word "Absurd" which refers to something that is nonsensical, worthless, meaningless, nothingness, foolish and ridiculous. So, a drama which is going to gift a  long train of absurdness(boring) can be called an Absurd drama. It is the play which is constructed loosely as well as ghostly characters. Life is reflected as  purposeless, aimless and meaningless.

In the absurd theater irrational experiences of life are presented instead of logical construction and rational ideas.

Waiting for Godot is considered as a absurd not only for its loosely constructed plot, but also for the characters who are just like puppet. The theme of the play is mysterious. The characters, presented here without any purpose of life. They are just passing their time and waiting for someone who is not to be sure to come. They just do things. The dialogues of the play are purely absurd which have no direction to the past or future. We find the characters who are babbling throughout play inadequately.  So, absurdities prevail in everywhere and it has become more acute when we see that time is changeless. But, a change is noticeable that now the tree has sprouted four or five leaves.

"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, its awful"

The beginning, middle and the end of the play cannot be located it as a good play, but absurd.

Another reason which can be noted for its absurdity is the difference from poetic stage. Either dream and emotions or poetic language is absent here. The situation is constant and changeless enigmatic vein prevails throughout the play. No specific rules are followed in the mixture of tragic and comic elements. In the act-I it is very difficult for the characters to detect what action should be taken for their constant life. A bundle of hesitations have riddled their mind. They want to leave each other but do not dare to abandoned that place. Estragon does not want to pay heed what Vladimir is saying. But, Vladimir is saying continuously and Estragon is also cannot forsake his words. They were passing their lives with a transparent deception. Godot is mystery and remain the top quest of the readers. Their waiting is endless which seems to be absurd. The fact which is important that they are not unconscious about the absurdity and the whole world is waiting for things, which are absurd and mystery.

"Waiting for Godot" is the play which is extinction of any female character. Vladimir and Estragon who are suspective about their identity, wait for the ultimate extinction in a frustrated way. All the things are presented here as meaningless and purposeless which produce absurdness.

Absurdity get its full extent when the play has got its finishing touch. Waiting for uncertain possibility continues, human communication remains unsolved, the problem of existence remains meaningless and purposeless. The conversation between the two tramps remain in jargon really humbug and bunkum speech. So, all this things unitedly make the play absurd.

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