Abstract
Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot revolutionized the conventional theatre and redefined norms which shaped twentieth century drama. The play launched an absurdist style of writing on the landscape of drama which gave the life of performance to the intellectual existentialist ideals of Soren Aabaye Kierkegaard´s and Jean-Paul Sartre´s philosophy. This research paper analyses the elements of Existentialism with respect to supportive evidence from the play.
Highlights
Becket had discarded the conventions of drama and set the foundation of what would later be termed “Theatre of the Absurd,” by Martin Esslin
Existentialism, an intellectual movement, emerged after the World-War II owing much of its genesis to the inadequacy of reason to explain human existence
It influenced the Theatre of the Absurd, a trend in drama characterized by experimental techniques and nihilism
Summary
Becket had discarded the conventions of drama and set the foundation of what would later be termed “Theatre of the Absurd,” by Martin Esslin. No movement takes place in Waiting for Godot, and the entire play is www.ijellh.com e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406 Vladimir and Estragon, two tramps known to one another by nicknames Didi and Gogo, wait on a desolate plain by a tree to keep an appointment with someone called Godot.
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