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Thinking Activity on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" This blog is a part of my academic activity. CLICK HERE to get the task link. "Waiting for Godot" The waiting for godot is well known absurd play written in 20 th  century by  Samuel Beckett who is known as  Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatr director, poet, literary translator and winner of the Noble Prize for literature in 1969.  He wrote in both French and English and is widely known for his plays, especially Waiting for Godot which was published in 1949. This play was translated by Buckett himself. The play was originally written French language and called as ‘En attendant Godot. The plot of the story revolves around two seemingly homeless men who are waiting for something or someone named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. They both are waiting for arrival of Godot who never arrives. While...

This blog is a part of my thinking activity. CLICK HERE to get the link.. Here I am pointing out some of the thoughts which I like the most in given videos on Existentialism. 1.    What is Existentialism?    Though existentialist differ in their views on Existentialism but in a one or another way they share a basic belief of this term. From this video I like that triangle idea of freedom, individuality and passion which are the three sides of Existentialism. Along with it, the idea of philosophical suicide is quite interesting. 2.     The Myth of Sisyphus : The Absurd Reasoning Basically people think that their life is full of absurdity and dying is ultimate solution of it. But is it? It is mentioned in the video that human wants divorce from life and wants to make death mistress. This may show the human desire rather human fear for death. Suicide is an individual act. Suicide seems as it is a result of our absurd thought proce...

Interpretation Challenge: Breath: The Shortest Play by Samuel Beckett   This blog is a response to the task assigned in the google classroom. Click Here to get the task link... Breath by Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett is considered one of the last modernist writers who gave noteworthy contribution in the “Theater of Absurd.” His later plays are extremely short, Breath is an unusually brief work. The duration of this play is only of 35 seconds. It consists of the sound of “an instant of recorded vagitues” (a birth cry), followed by an amplified recording of somebody slowly inhaling and exhaling accompanied by an increase and decrease in the intensity of light. (Wikipedia)   Script of the play CURTAIN up 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum – together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about ...