Art Assignment. 'Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Beckett

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Waiting for Godot
'Waiting for Godot’ is an exceptional two-act English play authored by Samuel Beckett in the 20th century. In the play, Beckett represents two significant characters, Estragon and Vladimir, engaging in a variety of conversations while waiting for Godot. Unfortunately, Godot fails to arrive, and the duo encounters some other three characters (Lucky, Pozzo, and the boy) in the play. Remarkably, the play showcases an astonishing example of dramatic artistry by Beckett to sarcastically show his audience that dependence repulses personal freedom. That is to say, Samuel Beckett, accurately controlled the structure of the drama irrespective of the usual ways. Beckett’s job disestablishes conventional techniques of disposing and planning a play. Nevertheless, he professionally integrated language with action, aural, and visual beauty. Therefore, the play portrays multiple similarities and dissimilarities to other conventional plays played in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Principally, the altered convention and the structure of the play reveal the significant dissimilarity between the play and other conventional drama. For instance, the play has no clear exposition and plot that is a distinct ending and start of the narrative. Besides, the play only showcases a situation. Also, the scenes and the structure of the play does not have precise cutting and logical sequence of the occurrences but just a strand of incidents. On the other hand, conventional plays exhibit a clear plot, exposition, and logical progression of the scenes. However, the play 'Waiting for Godot' manifest multiple similar qualities to the conventional dramas in the 20th and 21st centuries. As an example, the play entails characters, language, and conversations like any other regular play. Literally, language takes on an essential role in this fantastic 20th-century play. The characters in the play converse and present their feeling about the world through language. However, the language in this play lacks reality, clarity, and correctness. In other words, the language is empty and meaningless, being the embodiment of the characters' problems in the stage. Making this play dissimilar to the conventional plays staged in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Primarily, Beckett utilized a post-modernist approach to a language where most of the dialogue in the play is ego-centric, and circular just like most plays. besides, the structure of his work is ground on the proposition of a double pattern - chain and circle working together. Though the language used is full of repetition and deceit without the illumination of the statements, such as the retorts of Pozzo, Vladimir, and Estragon. Besides, Beckett's characters in the play employ silence to establish tension of emphasis in the breakdown of communication. Furthermore, the activity of the drama is 'cyclical,' that is to say, proceedings of the subsequent scene reverberate those of the first. They are hence enhancing unhealthy repetiti...