Distortion in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

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Distortion in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Distortion presents exaggerated and absurd portraits of the human condition. Distortion also equips an author with a plane of existence that provides an avenue for posing questions concerning the nature of thought, behavior, and existence. Samuel Beckett distorts reality in his play Waiting For Godot; this literary effect enables him to question human life and a possible afterlife.

Surfacely, the recurrent setting is absurd: Vladimir and Estragon remain in the same non-specified place and wait for Godot, who never shows, day after day. They partake in this activity, this waiting, during both Act I and Act II, and we are led to infer that if Samuel Beckett had composed an Act III, Vladimir and Estragon would still be waiting on the country road beside the tree. Of course, no humans would do such things. The characters' actions in relation to setting are unreal-distorted, absurd. However, it is through this distortion and only through this distortion that we can guess at the importance and the details of the evasive figure...

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