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Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Existentialism in waiting for godot

Existentialism in waiting for godot
First of all v need to know about this term .
It is term in philosophy in literature , begin in 19th century while florished in 20th
Its philosophical views emphasize on individual existance, freedom & choice
An individual understands the world according to his own capacity or to his essence with freedom & chose the way ,the path further on the basis of experiences. Essence is one'z being, the very self of an individual..... For example what is the essence of a good book in literature? That it provides us guidance about lite... If it us a medical book then the essance ll not remain the same .... Good book of medic provides us bettr treatments of ailment
So every individual has its own essence few r good at paintings few r at some other art some r good learners while few r good teachers  so her in the waiting for godot astragon is good at complaining 😁 & also a dull & quite a forgetful kind of a man , viladimir is a little different he is good at conversation & both of them r good for waiting😉
Pozzo is having a kind of command over lucky he is good at his master hood but in the end he lost that  interest too
Lucky is good of being a captive or a slave he persists as a slave till the end & v ve noticed that even pozzo lost the interest in keeping him as a slave yet he prefer to remain a slave & put his cord in his blind masters hand
The other living thing in this play who has existence is a tree. Coz the course of the time is to move on while others feel about it as boring or blissful, dire or miserable. The tree in the end bore few leaves which refers that time is passing & the things actually having existence  moving few of them chose to wait one chose to slavery while pozzo had lost all kinds of interest coz he became blind
So the basics of existentialism
Individual existence, freedom and choice
These forces work together in this play
But there is another aspect of the play which is the consideration of the play to "absurd theater"
When philosophy of existentialism & of absurd the art inter mingle it shape rather different
It shapes like this as "Human desires for meaning .... Vs.... Meaninglessness of existance".
In other words " life is meaningless & v r compell to find meanings
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Its the conclusion of the entrance​ of existantialism' so​ philosophy in absurd theater
Life is meaningless for all the characters of the play yet they r striving to find the meaning in life
Cum idiology fits in the play he had established 6 stages initially to explain the life's meaninglessness
Or to avoid the pointlessness of life
1st suicide
One should kill oneself like viladimir & astragon at the end of 1st act decieded to but could not find the rope
2nd distraction
One must destract oneself by making love or eating or wandering
As both of them did they eat carrots or turnips to distract themselves from the boredom of life
3rd religion
They talked about bible but that is also proved futile
Pretend
Metatextual , played acting but again discarded
Artist
Viladimir try to sing but faild to get pass the time
Politics or to rule someone
Pozzo has a slave , power over lucky but in the end that was not not enough for him he lost the desire to rule him
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And then the man name Cumus discarded all those and build a new one that is acceptance
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They accept that he is not going to come yet went on waiting for him
By their own choice they were free to chose this or that but they select to wait him  no spacific end😨

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