I have studied “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett in my 3rd
semester of Post Graduation. Dr. Dilip Barad has given us a task after movie
screening of “Waiting for Godot”.
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My response to the blog
task:
Respected Sir,
Here is my response for the given task:
1. “A country road. A tree .Evening.” is the setting of both a play and these two paintings. The connection is the way person is looking towards sun (hope) and another is standing beside him with his support. “Longing” can be connected with “waiting”.
2. In act 1 the tree was barren and whole day Vladimir and Estragon have spent in waiting for Godot but he didn’t come, but in act two there were four or five leaves on the tree which suggests three things first is hope for them that Godot will come, second is they are waiting for so long time and third is constant ‘change’ in nature, everything is not as same as it was, and that change is the meaning in nothingness. Tree is static, but its nature is constant ‘change’ by leaving barrenness behind and having new leaves which Samuel Becket connects with human life.
3. After the Second World War things were changing and everyone wanted to get out of miseries of world war. Vladimir in act one eagerly waits for night as if he is frustrated with day and routine life. Night gives hope that another day will come and something will happen but again its routine life.
4. Debris in the setting of the play suggests the effect of Second World War.
5. The theme of the play is nothingness and it recurs time and again by characters as they are doing insignificant activities meaninglessly and they cannot change their life. Estragon and Vladimir want to go far away but they can’t because they are waiting for Godot. They can do nothing as per their will.
6. Yes, I agree with this. Whatever disastrous happen in our life, we have to accept that and we have to move on like tree in play, it was barren and lost its all leaves but it was producing new leaves by leaving past behind.
7. Vladimir plays with hat and Estragon with boots. Estragon is not a man of thinking like Vladimir. Boots suggests the ignorance and carelessness towards outside world and hat suggests the deep thinking and questioning to the world, both are important for a person.
8. Yes, Lucky is very obedient and it irritates us. It suggests deep rooted colonialism in the mind of Lucky that he is not able to get freedom of it. If we change lucky with followers of God and Pozzo with God we can find the similarity that followers cannot leave their master.
9. Godot can be seen as ‘God’, ‘an object of desire’ and also as ‘death’. But according to me, Godot is something we don’t know! We all are living in our routine life with happiness and sadness but what after being happy or sad? Its routine life. May be Godot is change.
10. Yes, I agree that The subject of the play is not Godot but ‘Waiting because if Godot is the subject and if he come, what after his arrival? the interesting part is waiting and how we wait rather than the end of waiting.
11. I prefer reading rather than viewing because when we read we can imagine the things and situation and the images in our mind is with our perspective not of director’s perspective. After reading the play for better understanding movie helps us.
12. The sequence I like the most is Conversation of Vladimir with the Boy because the boy is very mysterious and his answers to Vladimir have deep meaning.
13. They both decide to hang themselves but afraid that if one will die and another will live than what they will do? Existentialism is also talk about suicide and the idea of suicide comes from the absurdity and meaninglessness of life, but they didn’t do that because on one or the other hand they have accepted their absurdity of life.
14. If we read politically the play, Vladimir - Russia; Estragon - France; Pozzo - Italy and Lucky – England then Godot can be considered as Germany and Hitler and its capitalism.
15. Master slave relation has presented by Pozzo and Lucky, but the extreme obedience of Lucky is problematic here that he can be free but he don’t want to be free. So we could not clearly point out the connection of Ireland and England for the play.
16.
Act- 1
BOY: - What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?
VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw us. (Pause.) You did see us, didn't you?
Act – 2
BOY: What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?
VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw me and that . . (he hesitates) . . . that you saw me. (Pause. Vladimir advances, the Boy recoils. Vladimir halts, the Boy halts. With sudden violence.) You're sure you saw me; you won't come and tell me tomorrow that you never saw me!
This change in conversation from “Us” to “Me” suggests two things first is Vladimir has become self-centered and another is being individual and leaving ego behind as psychologically Vladimir suggests id and Estragon suggests ego.
Thank you.
Here is my response for the given task:
1. “A country road. A tree .Evening.” is the setting of both a play and these two paintings. The connection is the way person is looking towards sun (hope) and another is standing beside him with his support. “Longing” can be connected with “waiting”.
2. In act 1 the tree was barren and whole day Vladimir and Estragon have spent in waiting for Godot but he didn’t come, but in act two there were four or five leaves on the tree which suggests three things first is hope for them that Godot will come, second is they are waiting for so long time and third is constant ‘change’ in nature, everything is not as same as it was, and that change is the meaning in nothingness. Tree is static, but its nature is constant ‘change’ by leaving barrenness behind and having new leaves which Samuel Becket connects with human life.
3. After the Second World War things were changing and everyone wanted to get out of miseries of world war. Vladimir in act one eagerly waits for night as if he is frustrated with day and routine life. Night gives hope that another day will come and something will happen but again its routine life.
4. Debris in the setting of the play suggests the effect of Second World War.
5. The theme of the play is nothingness and it recurs time and again by characters as they are doing insignificant activities meaninglessly and they cannot change their life. Estragon and Vladimir want to go far away but they can’t because they are waiting for Godot. They can do nothing as per their will.
6. Yes, I agree with this. Whatever disastrous happen in our life, we have to accept that and we have to move on like tree in play, it was barren and lost its all leaves but it was producing new leaves by leaving past behind.
7. Vladimir plays with hat and Estragon with boots. Estragon is not a man of thinking like Vladimir. Boots suggests the ignorance and carelessness towards outside world and hat suggests the deep thinking and questioning to the world, both are important for a person.
8. Yes, Lucky is very obedient and it irritates us. It suggests deep rooted colonialism in the mind of Lucky that he is not able to get freedom of it. If we change lucky with followers of God and Pozzo with God we can find the similarity that followers cannot leave their master.
9. Godot can be seen as ‘God’, ‘an object of desire’ and also as ‘death’. But according to me, Godot is something we don’t know! We all are living in our routine life with happiness and sadness but what after being happy or sad? Its routine life. May be Godot is change.
10. Yes, I agree that The subject of the play is not Godot but ‘Waiting because if Godot is the subject and if he come, what after his arrival? the interesting part is waiting and how we wait rather than the end of waiting.
11. I prefer reading rather than viewing because when we read we can imagine the things and situation and the images in our mind is with our perspective not of director’s perspective. After reading the play for better understanding movie helps us.
12. The sequence I like the most is Conversation of Vladimir with the Boy because the boy is very mysterious and his answers to Vladimir have deep meaning.
13. They both decide to hang themselves but afraid that if one will die and another will live than what they will do? Existentialism is also talk about suicide and the idea of suicide comes from the absurdity and meaninglessness of life, but they didn’t do that because on one or the other hand they have accepted their absurdity of life.
14. If we read politically the play, Vladimir - Russia; Estragon - France; Pozzo - Italy and Lucky – England then Godot can be considered as Germany and Hitler and its capitalism.
15. Master slave relation has presented by Pozzo and Lucky, but the extreme obedience of Lucky is problematic here that he can be free but he don’t want to be free. So we could not clearly point out the connection of Ireland and England for the play.
16.
Act- 1
BOY: - What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?
VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw us. (Pause.) You did see us, didn't you?
Act – 2
BOY: What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?
VLADIMIR: Tell him . . . (he hesitates) . . . tell him you saw me and that . . (he hesitates) . . . that you saw me. (Pause. Vladimir advances, the Boy recoils. Vladimir halts, the Boy halts. With sudden violence.) You're sure you saw me; you won't come and tell me tomorrow that you never saw me!
This change in conversation from “Us” to “Me” suggests two things first is Vladimir has become self-centered and another is being individual and leaving ego behind as psychologically Vladimir suggests id and Estragon suggests ego.
Thank you.
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