Abstract:
When do people start believing that they cannot do anything to change the situation of their life?
Does faith help one recover what one has lost? Reading Waiting for Godot creates such questions
in a reader’s mind. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot does not provide direct answers to these
questions; however, we see the agony and angst of human beings of postmodern era in Waiting
for Godot. The life of helpless human beings have been portrayed and the absence of an idea has
been shown through the character of Godot. The people who have everything may not
understand how it feels to lose everything and wait to recover. People who have nothing tend to
wait to revive what they have lost. Nothing will seem important to that person and mortality will
force him to wait for some miracle. Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a play where the characters
have nothing and they wait for that revival. The wait seems meaningless because the characters
do not know what they are waiting for. The post Second World War society saw so much horror
that they started to see meaninglessness in everything. The nothingness became a true
phenomenon in everyday activities. The shock of the war turned society into believing that there
is no guarantee of life in the coming hour. The existential crisis destroyed the believe system of the greater part of the society. The interpretation of the play varies from critic to critic but the
play has been accepted as a masterpiece by the modern audience
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh