Waiting For Godo

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Waiting for Godot Discuss the use of repetition in the play “Waiting for Godot” By Samuel Beckett. “Nothing to be done” The first line from Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot sets a tone that will be carried through out ,a tone of futility and boredom, it does not only set a tone but also is our first phrase of many that are repeated from the onset of the play. The play was Beckett’s first and was written first in French and later translated to English. The play was an Absurd Play. It began Beckett’s relationship with “The Theatre of the Absurd”, a type of stylistic technique which originated in France. It is defined as “drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world”. It depends greatly on the structures of its plays to convey meaning and tends to use unconventional and often complex dialogue. Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot is a typical Absurd play; it follows many of the characteristics using repetition and language to portray meaning rather than imagery, stage props or action. In fact from the beginning of the play, we are set up for little or no action in the very first line, and soon we are brought into a world of waiting, repetition becomes an essential component in the plays structure and hopefully throughout this essay you will come to understand its necessity within Beckett’s piece. It seems that the play is unfocused and confused, it begins and ends with two men waiting for someone standing at a tree, there is no change, no climax, no excitement. It is a very bare story and very bare plot if you would even call it that seeing as it contains and only highlights its total lack of progression in the storyline. Beckett was once quoted saying “I produce an object. What people make of it is none of my concern....” He himself claims that he hopes to lure people
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