Comment on the theme of nothingness in Waiting for Godot./Since nothing happens in Waiting for Godot— no progress in time or space, can it be defined as drama ? Evaluate./ Waiting for Godot is a play without a plot. Do you agree ? Justify./ Waiting for Godot explores a static situation. Discuss./

Comment on the theme of nothingness in Waiting for Godot./Since nothing happens in Waiting for Godot— no progress in time or space, can it be defined as drama ? Evaluate./ Waiting for Godot is a play without a plot. Do you agree ? Justify./ Waiting for Godot explores a static situation. Discuss./

Jean-Paul Sartre published his seminal existentialist work  Being and Nothingness in 1943 in which he asserts that at the root of our being there is nothingness. Samuel Becket, who was inspired by the existentialist philosophy of Albert Camus and Sartre in his early 20s, published his trend setting play Waiting for Godot  in 1952,( in which nothing significant happens). He also asserts in the play that nothingness is at the root of our existence, especially in the life of the modern people. 

Whereas in the tradition play we see a concentrated single action motivates the whole play, here in the case of Wating for Godoteverything is fuelled by the sense of ‘nothingness’. In fact, here nothing creates everything.

Whether we look at or look into the play , the sense of nothingness determines the course of the whole play. As a playwright, Samuel Becket believes that form and content should be complementary and should not be separate from each other. Here in the play both the form and the content  arestructured by  an encircling sense of nothingness. Apart from form and content every outer and inner component of the play serves complementary role to establish the idea of ‘nothingness’. Every  aspect of the play - structure ,theme, setting, character , dialogue or some other  behavioral silent activities- is motivated by one thing that is  nothingness—the nothingness of the human life. But here ‘nothingness’ points its finger toward ‘everything’ –everything that modern people face physically and psychologically after two World Wars..........................................................

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