Thinking activity: Waiting for Godot

 Thinking activity :

"WAITING FOR GODOT"

Hello my dear friends, here I'm writing about the what kind of Play "Waiting For Godot" is. And also I would like to give my responses about the play.

🟡WHAITING FOR GODOT 🟡

Waiting for Godot  is a play by Samuel Beckett 

in which two characters, Vladimir  and Estragon , engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, who never arrives. Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled "a tragicomedy in two acts".The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.more

🟤 Chief Characters of the play 🟤

Estragon

Estragon  is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. 

His name is the French word for tarragon.Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main characters, much in contrast to his companion Vladimir's careful intellectualism and verbosity. He cares little for appearances, and is mostly concerned with eating and sleeping. Due to his pessimistic outlook on life, he has abandoned all hope of any alleviation from their suffering, and regards "Godot" suspiciously.more

Vladimir

Vladimir is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Vladimir is deeply concerned with appearances and goes to great lengths to make sure Estragon behaves so that his own dignity is preserved. He is something of a pack rat: he carries all the food the tramps have, and has other"miscellaneous" junk in various pockets. Another important prop is his bowler hat. He claims that it "hurts" him, and is eventually driven to appropriate Lucky's.more

1. What do you think about the Characters of the play?

In the play " Waiting for Godot" Both Estragon and Vladimir are essentially Everymen, representing all of humanity, but they also contrast in some ways. Estragon is primarily concerned with feelings, particularly his own suffering, rather than intellectual thoughts, and he has trouble understanding much of Vladimir's logic and philosophy. He displays intuitive leaps, however, that go deeper than Vladimir does with his logic. If the two primary characters represent two parts of a person, Estragon is the body. The beatings Estragon says he receives represent the suffering that afflicts and traps humanity. There is nothing noble about this suffering—Estragon's complaints about it are self-pitying, and the fear of another beating keeps him locked in the endless waiting. Vladimir is the more logical and intellectual of the two primary characters. He is the only character who remembers most events from one day to another, and he works the hardest to fit those events into a logical time frame, despite conflicting evidence. He tries to explore philosophical ideas logically, but often misses deeper truths Estragon seems to grasp instinctively. If Estragon represents the body, Vladimir represents the mind, with all its ability to deceive itself.

In short , we can say that the Characters of the play only doing " waiting" for Godot who is never coming in their life, but still they were waiting for Godot.

2. What do you say about their activities and its significance?

In the play " Waiting for Godot" the Characters of the play only doing waiting in their lives for Godot who is never coming , Godot is 'who' we are waiting for, and in the course of the play that can take on many meanings There is no stated or implied reason within the play why Godot never shows up. So we can say that in our life human beings always wait for something, and Godot simply represents the objective of their waiting an event, a thing, a person, death. Beckett has thus depicted in this play a situation that has a general human application. 

3. Is there any similarity between the situations in the play and the lockdown period of 2020?

Yes. The play Waiting Forward Godot is full of absurdity, it's Characters only doing waiting for Godot who was never coming in their lives , our lockdown period seems like this. During lockdown of pandemic we were only doing waiting for re-opening the world, we all are know that it is impossible, but still we were only doing waiting as well as Estragon and Vladimir done in whole play.On 22 March 2020, India observed a 14-hour voluntary public curfew at the instance of the prime minister Narendra Modi in an attempt to express solidarity in relation to the growing Corona pandemic that has had a global impact within a matter of a few months. Two days later, Modi announced a lockdown of three weeks in an attempt to contain the damage through social distancing and strategic incarceration. On 14 April, the nationwide lockdown was extended for another 19 days since at this point of time that seems to be the most effective plan in containing the cancerous spread of the pandemic. Life, as we know it, will never be the same since this situation has given a reality check to the otherwise organised, systematic, and methodical rituals and routines that we are so used to follow at an ordinary, everyday level. 

4.  Did you feel like existential crisis?

Yes, I have feel absurdity in my life. I feel like my life is meaning less , I feel like my future has no more chances for shining . I feel like my all dreams of life are3 dying itself. the virus will continue to travel across the World. exploiting any gaps in protection measures. 

 

Also today I am facing Same situation as well as in this play , at my place neither network is working properly here , so I'm unable for communicate properly during attending my study classes . Additionally nowadays the summer is on it's duty , so because of th I can't go to terrace for attending classes . It is my condition for this time same as this Play.

5)What did you do to pass time?

Nowadays I  passes my  time  through attending my online classes  also my GK classes and also passes time with some  reading of GK books but often I feel boring so when I feels boring then I go for a sleep 😴. I feels very worthless and I also worries  for seeing my future dull. I can't do anything during this time. Nothing is in my hand. Feeling very  meaning less life.😕

6) How was your psychological condition?

It is common that during this period , sometimes normal people  are going to becomes very angry on such a small matters in our family or in our society. But also when u think about myself I'm also feeling like same 😕. I feels hopeless . Even when  I feeling very bored I'm going to quarrels with my siblings 😂 in some events. And this way I passes my time during this pandemic . I feels irritation in my life 🙁.

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