Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

 Thinking Activity of The Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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1)     What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings?

                                                 

                                                   In the play first scene is 'a country road, a tree, and evening' it is very symbolical. Barren tree symbolizes negative things and it shows the idea of near to death. These paintings symbolizes Longing. Longing means desire or hope. In our life one by one, we hope many things and then we tries to fulfill it. In these paintings, first is very dark and second is yellowish shade. 'Morning' symbolizes birth or 'Evening' symbolizes death. So, when evening over new hope will come at morning. But these paintings shows our harsh reality of life.

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             2) The tree is the only important ‘thing’ in the setting. What is the importance of tree in both acts? Why does Beckett grow a few leaves in Act II on the barren tree -The tree has four or five leaves - ? 

                                                                Writer Samuel Beckett uses  "Tree" in setting of the play and also as the symbol. In first Tree is a barren tree .  And in second play tree is grown up with four or five leaves. The barren tree  shows the 'Hopelessness' of Valdimir and Estragon.  In Act-1 nothing happens and the same things are repeated in  Act-2. But the minor change is that now Tree has four or five leaves on it  which suggest the 'Hope of Tomorrow'.  Valdimir looks at the tree and notice that and says that...."Yesterday evening all bare and black . Now it has leaves on it."  Symbols represents that the things are constantly changed in life also. All things are going to change through time and all days are not same .It constantly changed into gloomy or happiness . So, Tree represents both  the sides of life - and have hope for tomorrow.  Hope is endless and hope is the only thing through which human being is alive today. Hope never going to die. Hope supports us to avoid the meaninglessness of life .

                   5))The play begins with the dialogue “Nothing to be done”. How does the theme of ‘nothingness’ recurs in the play?

       

             The play begins with the dialogue “Nothing to be done”.  The whole play is begins with nothingness because we would not found any beginning or end into the play but we can find great meaning threw this play which shows great way of living life. We can see also see that in life many people things that all problems were come in my life because of my bad fortune but human being himself is the reason of their problems. But many people will do suicide to end their life because they would not found any hope of living life. So the word nothing ness is also something into the play.

                  6)Do you agree: “The play (Waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: 'No matter what— atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, anything—life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can't kill life." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?

             Yes, I think that the character of lucky is irritating because his duty only to obey his master’s order. Even he has not at least a single freedom that he can move his body. Through this character I think that such slavery of man is unbelievable.

              7)  How are the props like hat and boots used in the play? What is the symbolical significance of these props?

              yes, I’m agree with this point “Waiting for godot” is positive play not negative because Vladimir and Estragon Waiting for godot but “godot” is not come but they are waiting there , so “hope” are there. We can say that the Play is meaningless, rubbish kind of thing there. 

                  

               

                   8)  Do you think that the obedience of Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable?

Pozzo - Lucky: Master-Slave

                                                  Yes, I think that the character of lucky is irritating because his duty only to obey his master’s order. Even he has not at least a single freedom that he can move his body. Through this character I think that such slavery of man is unbelievable.

               12)  This type of slavishness is possible, if we take the example of elephant so elephant has capacity to break that row but yet he never do it. Because his mind constructed like that and he never escape from this. As same it also happens in human beings also.

  Which of the following sequence you liked the most:

o   Vladimir – Estragon killing time in questions and conversations while waiting

Vladimir and Estragon: The Had and the Boot

)I                               like the Act of Vladimir and Estragon killing the time in question and conversation while waiting.

               15)  Can we do any political reading of the play if we see European nations represented by the 'names' of the characters (Vladimir - Russia; Estragon - France; Pozzo - Italy and Lucky - England)? What interpretation can be inferred from the play written just after World War II?

                              Pozzo and Lucky, these character forces us to political reading of the play. As the relationship between them was slave and master relationship which we see in European nation most.     

Existentialism : 'Waiting for Godot'

                                   Existentialism : 'Waiting for Godot'

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Video 1: What is Existentialism?


                                   
            
         The first person who referred to himself as an existentialism and founded the whole movement was John Paul Sartre an extension is in fact highly associated with him he not considered.

             First Existentialism it's common to believe existentialist start with Kierkegaard despite the fact that we can apply the term existentialism to many a great thinker and writer such as ..........

Kierkegaard Nietzsche, Dashefsky, Kafka Heidegger, Should stop, Hermann, Hesse sword etc......

              Important parts which village constitute existialism passion are freedom so instead of looking at existentialism with the emphasis on the individual at it's core and other subjects covering and coating the core I suggest that you think of it as a triangle with individuality, freedom, and passions as its three sides that might be one reason why believing or not believing in God would ingredients ones holding a title as an existentialist.

              Existentialism is mainly popular among young people mostly because it touches on subjects which a person in his or her youth might be strugging with let's face it whose attention will be attracted to a subject like suicide, anguish, thanks, absurdity, passion, emotions, their, freedom, or even despair etc........

    


Video 2: The Myth of Sisyphus: The Absurd reasoning (feeling of the Absurd).

                                          In this video we'II be talking about an absurd reasoning Camus starts this essay by bringing our attention to an intriguing and some what unention start he writes there is but one truly serious probiem and that is suicide.....

                                           Example: Movie ' Stay' where you run across sentences like these how did he kill himself he shot himself on the Brooklyn bridge he said it was the best art work of the 19 the century.

Video 3: The Myth of Sisyphus: the notion of philosophical suicide.

           

                                         philosophical suicide was what made me fall in love with Camus when I was 16 becausr it's one thing to recognize the absurd and it's quite another to embrace it and accept these, consequences most people don't even hesitate to reflect upon life to see it's absurdity.

                                        Philosophy called suicide there can be no absurd outside the human mind thus like every thing else the absurd ends with death that's why you could either negate yourself to get away from the absurd and commit physical suicide or you could also dent the absurd and live I'm perpetual denial and commit Philadelphia suicide in which case you would kill yourself as a philosopher to avoid the absurd once you've recognized.

                                           A total absence of hope : Despair

                                           A continual rejection : Renunciation

                                          A conscious dissatisfaction : Immature unrest

                                    Two forms of suicide and these " I am taking the liberty at this point of calling the exlstential attitude philosophical suicide "

                                  Philosophical suicide " like suicide, Gods change with men. There are many ways of leaping, the essential, being to leap"

Video 4: Dadaism, Nihilism and Existentialism.

                                                   1816 data movement grows up against worid war one for most people Dadaism is associated with Nihilism.

                                                     Existentialism emerged after worid war 2 as a movement another series of doctrines as an answer to the absurdity of life this is comparable to the Dada movement a few artists such as Hugo ball, yonko, jean, arp, Cesaro and many others were disgusted by the war moved to Zurich and founded the movement.

                                                 Dadaism the reason wasn't about our time being all artistic it's merely an art movementis not really art pain free of any rules is what made it vulnerable to become accused of Nihilism but it was devoid of rules for good reasons it'svery nature was questioning and objecting the already existing values in order to overcome them you could even say that item was the Socrates of the war years it is ad if though Nietzsche odd reason these words to describe the movement.

                                                     " Whom do they hate most?

 Him who breaks up their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker. He , however, it the creator."

                                        " How can one get rid of every thing that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, Europeanised, enervated ?"

                                                                                                            by Saying dada

                                            Nihilism have nothing to do with each other both are fed up with everyday life and it's arbitrary values and that's where the similarity stops the reason wasn't an extension or a Nihilistic movement it was only a response to world war one just as the extensionism was a response to war two dresses an absurdist would recognize the absurdity of life and embrace if bizarro writes the absurd " The absurd doesn't frighten me, because from a more elevated point of view, I consider everything in life to be absurd"

Video 5: Existentialism - a gloomy philosophy. 

                               


                                           Exustentialusm is often accused of being a gloomy Philosophy while there is the truth ti this claim we must look at the whole picture.

                                            Why existentialism thought of as a gloomy philosophy because notions such as anxicty, despair and absurdity.

                                     Existentialism is a narcissistic philosophy being an Nietzsche puts it become.e who you are I've also heard of people saying how exist on shells that will inevitably lead to Nihilism right just as a beer or a 

                                                            Existentialism........Nihilism

                                                           Cigarette.............   Heroin

                                       So does exist Angelle them to Nihilism not that I have anything to say against Nihilism but nothing ean be further from the truth,

                                       Existentialism was a response to this emptiness after worid war II people's lives seemed to have became meaningless and filled with despair it was in such an atmosphere the exists an shells them came to people's rescue and offered a cure.

Video 6 : Existentialism and Nihilism : It is one and the same?

                                           In the sixth video, Existentialism is opposed to Nihilism because Nietzsche believes that Nihilism comes after existentialist thinking. As per my understanding Nihilism ‘s shows us that everything is meaningless in the world and we are tempted by an objective scheme of things. And on the other hand existentialist thinker believes that there is no single meaning but we create our personal meaning for life. So in that point Nietzsche disagree with Nihilism because it ties our thinking ability and existentialism gives us more to look insight and judge it critically.

  
Video 7: Let us introduce Existentialism again

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                                                 Existentialism greatest works of philosophy and literature western civilization has ever seen however putting one's finger on what existentialism is proves quite difficult the goal of this lecture is to help  people better understand existentialism more specifically we wibriefly go over the history of existentialism.

                                              Existentialism become especially prominent in the mid 20- the century.....

Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty...........

Video 8 : Explain like i am five: Existentialism and Nietzsche

                                        Existentialism can be summed of these points:

                   1) We live in a chaotic and meaningless universe.

                   2) We made meaning and structures in our lives.

                   3) So we create this meaning and structure ourselves.

Video 9 : Why I like existentialism? Eric Dodson.

           

                                           Existentialism & Friedrich Nietzsche:-We can make our own rules.making of rules is basically highlighted here.Ubermenschen Superhero of Nietzsche serves our wills & desires.individual is remains in the center.

After watching all videos i would like to give my preference to two videos out of them.

Very first video gives brief but yet helpful ideas of Existentialism.as it has no value except our wills.life has no meaning until it can't lived. Feedbacks of lived once signifies here.

Choice-Freedim-Respinsibilty: Individual

    Existentialism comes as optimistic.

video 10 : Let us sum up: from Essentialism to Existentialism. 

                                     Philosophy is about the dialectic: someone puts forth an idea and then someone else responds to it. Sometimes, the response comes an right away, in other cases, it takes thousands of years. In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle took is as given that everything has an essence - a certain set of core properties that are necessary, or essential - a certain set for a thing to be what it is. The things which gives defining function , is the essential property. Plato and Aristotle thought that everything has an essence - including us. "Essence precedes our Existence".   

Answer 1)

. My favorite video is Video no 

  2) Because this video all about our absurdity. when we feel absurd and hopeless our life so we kill ourself.

Digdarshak - Hindi Play: दिगदर्शक - हिन्दी नाटक:

            Digdarshak - Hindi Play: दिगदर्शक - हिन्दी नाटक:

                             ‘ Digdarshak’ Hindi one act play Theatre of Generation Next : Written by Priyam Jani Directed by Rishit Jhaveri.

in this play based on one debait is

 ' Cinema Versus Theatre'

                          So, Cinema is really just another word meaning moving picture. It also has come to mean more generally the process of film – making and also the building where films are shown. Theater is similar to Cinema, in that it can mean the building, or more generally the industry of live performance.

                             

                                                                            ‘Digdarshak’ two characters are played a vital role to cover the entire stage. One man who are the man of Theater and gave everything his life his time he has same expectation from his actors to be like him. Director used to flashback technique for clear the concept.

                               Myth of Ashwatthama also symbolically represent relation of student an artist and teacher as a trainer are also portrayed good, so such an interesting play.

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Yugpurush Mahatma Na Mahatma

                                      

                               Yugpurush Mahatma Na Mahatma is a 2016 Gujarati play based on the relationship between jain Philosopher Shrimad Rajchdra and Indian independence leader mahatma Gandhi

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                          Gandhjij inspire of the Shrimad Rajchndre. Shrimad said about such a saintly personality Gandhiji adds………..

                         “ We are all worldly people whereas Shrimad was not of this world. We will have to take many births whereas for Shrimad perhaps one birth is sufficient we will perhaps be running away from liberation whereas Shrimad was advancing to wards liberation at a very fast pace “

                       Satyagraha is the idea of nonviolent resistance started by Mohandas karamechad Gandhi. Gandhi used satyagraha and also during his earlier struggle in south Africa.

                                       

                     Rajchandraji had unbelievable spirit and knowledge. He was doing 100 works at the same time and he also inspire us that all human being try. This play is based on relation of Mahatma and Gandhiji.

               So, as a student of literature we learned many thing from this play.

                                

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The Hairy Ape

                   
                                              


      The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It is about a brutish, unthinking laborer known as Yank, the protagonist of the play, as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. 

                   The central character of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is Yank, a fireman, or someone who stokes the coal furnace of transatlantic ships. He is brutish and opinionated. Yank is leader of the firemen and the play opens with him hanging out with his coworkers in the forecastle of the ship. Though he is able to command their attention easily, they don't hesitate to make fun of how he speaks. Yank mocks a fellow fireman when the fireman stands up to make a speech about how they are in a hell created by the upper class.

                   The upper class in The Hairy Ape is represented by Mildred, a socialite who likes to help the poor, and her aunt, who is traveling with her. Mildred, before setting off on the journey, worked with the poor in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and is on her way to do more work in Europe. Mildred's aunt calls her charity work 'slumming'. She tells Mildred that it just makes poor people feel bad if the upper class helps them. She thinks Mildred should leave the poor in peace and let them be poor. Mildred argues with her aunt and is waiting for one of the ship's engineers to take her down to the stokehole. She's lied to the engineer and said that her father, the president of Nazareth Steel Company, gave his permission for her to go below.

                      Yank is in New York City, having returned from the voyage during which he scared Mildred. He is walking around the city with Long, one of his fellow firemen. Long is trying to convince Yank the rich don't care about the working classes, so Yank tries to make one of the rich passers-by notice him and react. He purposefully bumps into people, but is largely ignored. He is arrested, though, for making a man miss his bus. In jail, he vows revenge against Mildred. His fellow prisoners suggest he join one of the unions upon his release.

                    When he is released, Yank goes to an ironworkers' union but is rejected because they think he is a government spy. He tells them he is a government spy. He tells them he wants to cause mayhem in the city to get back at the upper class, and they throw him out of the offices. Yank gets drunk and goes to the zoo, where he sees the gorilla in its cage. He tells the gorilla the he's a hairy ape too, and unlocks the cage to shake the gorilla's hand. The gorilla mauls him and throws yank into the cage, escaping while yank die

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