Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a clear reflection of the sense of absurdity, anger, and anguish that characterizes the state of modern man after the Second World War. The play depicts a world of destruction, spiritual void, purposelessness and boredom with life. Throughout the play, Beckett stresses the fact that modern man is deprived of human communication and suffers from a state of loss, uncertainty, anger and despair. Beckett’s attitude is well illustrated in G.C Thornley’s book, An
suffer from weak faith. Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot deals with several themes that highlights the absurdity of human conditions. Waiting for Godot consists of two acts. Events of act II largely repeat and parallel those of act I. The play is about two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who wait by a country road near a tree. They wait for Godot although they do not know him. They meet Pozzo, the land owner, and Lucky, Pozzo’s slave, while waiting. In act I, Pozzo appears as strong master and
“Imagination no longer has a function”, says Emile Zola in his essay, ‘Naturalism in the Theatre’. Many of the ideas which Zola has discussed in this essay have been taken up by modern theatre, both in theory and practice. Modern theatre, for instance, is aware of the fact that analysis and not synthesis should be the basis for theatrical production. It is with this theory at the back of his mind that Bertolt Brecht has discussed theatre’s role as an educator only if the elements associated with