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Comparative literary analysis on play by samuel beckett
Religious writings in American literature
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1. Genre
We think that this play is a psichological and philosophical play, because it is about two men who are waiting a God. So, in our opinion, this play in spite of being an absurd stage, is about religion.
We think that this is a play of ideas, we know what is happenning when we see it on the stage, not before. The author explains something using the logic.
2. Narrator and narrative
As this is a play, we couldn´t find a common narrator here: what we find is the characters speaking, using the dialogue. But, in some way, we can consider the explanations of the author about the movements of the actors and the decoration as a kind of narrator, which, in that case, would be used in 3rd person.
If we consider this as a narrator, it will be objetive, because we can understand the play in the manner we want, we can interpretate the story in many ways: what this narrator does is help us with the understanding of the story
We believe
that the author´s understanding of life limits the story: the two main characters are always thinking on Godot to come, on the death to come. In our opinion, the author want the readers to apreciate life.
As we have said before, the narrator that appears in the play help us to imagine the stage, how the characters look like, their clothes...It sites us on the play.
3. Theme
As we have said before, the main theme in this play is religion, the "faith in God".
ESTRAGON:Let´s go.
VLADIMIR:We can´t.
ESTRAGON:Why not?
VLADIMIR:We are waiting for Godot.
They are all day waiting for hin because they believe
he is going to rescue them.
Another minor theme that we can find:
-The illness of the two protagonists, that in our opinion is alzheimer, which makes them , specially to Estragon, not to remember what had happened
the day before.
4. Style
All the events in this play are narrated chronologically. There are no flash-backs, the story is lineal, because an act carries another act, as we can see at the beginning
of evefy one of them:
"Next day. Same time. Same place"
When the two main characters speak is important to know that both say and repeat the same things that other has already said:
ESTRAGON:What I am to say?
VLADIMIR:Say, I am happy.
ESTRAGON:I am happy.
VLADIMIR:So I am.