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Absurdity Of Absurd: Samuel Beckett’s Awaiting Go Dot);

Simply what does ‘Absurd’ mean ?After i searched the glossaries ,I came across your message to get ‘out of harmony’(1).Only the definitions trying tough to explain the phrase , simply to end in total ‘Absurdity’ (assuming for a while that we understand the meaning from the word),as they talk in total sense, the nonsense regarding it and naturally which means they fail(in their attempt ).But thinking about the term to get related to literature (along with types of art too!),when I wanted more I ran across the lines that states that no ‘literary criticism’ [in i always add some tries to explain the literary terms] will take the literary work itself ,as well as to be more specific ‘…it [literary criticism]is no replacement for reading the job itself’(2),as it [the bit of work]is the most exactly and precisely ,the thought conveyed or explained. So, I reached the concept that to know ‘absurd’ .I need to view an absurd work by a painter, as an alternative to poring on the discusses it. Hence as being a literary student what first stumbled on my thoughts when it reaches this instant is none, but Looking forward to GODOT by Samuel Beckett, the so named absurd play structured around ‘Go dot’, the axis all absurdity[as till the date none could declare with full confidence ‘who’ or ‘what’ Go dot is !]
What I found in the dustbin of my memories with this go dot is:
“On 19 Nov 1957, several worried actors were getting ready to face their audience . The actors were members of the corporation with the S . fransisco Actors’ Workshop . The viewers consisted of fourteen hundred convicts in the San Quentin penitentiary . No live play was performed at San Quentin since Sarah Bernhardt appeared there in 1913 .Now ,forty four years later ,the play that had been chosen ,largely because no woman appeared inside , was Samuel Beckett’s Awaiting GODOT’(3). …”Beckett real triumph ,…came when Anticipating GODOT which appeared in book form in 1952,was first produced on 5 January 1953 , on the little Theatre de Babylone (now defunct ),…’(4)
And i also found several lines of the play:
“…
ESTRGON:Didi.
VLADIMIR:Yes.
ESTRGON:I can’t continue this way.
VLADIMIR: That’s if you agree.
ESTRAGON:When we parted?That you will find better of us .
VLADIMIR:We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow.(Pause)Unless Go dot comes.
ESTRAGON:If comes?
VLADIMIR:We’ll be saved
…”(5)
It is said about Beckett that whenever he was asked that what he meant by Go dot he answered “If I knew ,I’d have said so inside the play”(6).’WAITING FOR GODOT will not tell an account ;it explores a static situation ‘(7).Therefore it is clear in the very beginning that Beckett experimented with develop a ‘character’ with no character’ while he himself doesn’t know him [Go dot], and again the movement of plot is likely to zero ,i.e. there isn’t any plot . Previously it was overlooked that in case there exists a literary piece then there must be sometimes a story( or plot) to tellor any character to get represented .But did exactly opposite to revolutionize his concept .He presents a ‘character’ whom he himself will not know and tell a plot that is only variations in arrangements and sequences of few events with negligible movement or action :’nothing happens , nobody comes nobody goes …’ (8).
But tend to are the term ‘Absurd’ used on merely these qualities in the play? No, you can still find more as stated by critics .In the essay on Kalfka ,Ionesco defined his knowledge of the word as ‘ Absurd is the fact that and that is without requiring purpose…’(9).As well as the purposeless becomes evident when ‘ greater things change , the harder those are the same ‘(10).And also this is conducted by creating uncommon situations from the adhere to Breckett . As an illustration the boy who carries message of Go dot to Estragon and Vladimir doesn’t recognize them on on a daily basis of his reappearance .”The French version explicitly states which the boy who appears within the second act is identical boy because the one in the 1st act , yet the boy denies that she has even seen the 2 tramps before , and insists that could be the very first time he’s got acted as Go dot’s messenger’(11).And this is completed while ‘waiting’ and that is interpreted by Martin Esslin as ‘Waiting should be to experience the action of your energy , that’s constant change . Yet , as nothing real ever happens , the change is itself an illusion .The ceaseless activity of time is often a self defeating purposeless…’(12).
And thus from this purposelessness Beckett tries to prove the absurdity of his play .But is this fact really absurd ? When we find it from some different point of views we could suddenly find something contradicting . It’s because we all know the point that ‘ truth is never real’ ,and might know about define for just a situation turns into a truth for individuals , immediately . Same goes with the situation of abnormality or normality of a situation . When any pursuit is most frequent that becomes ‘ normal ‘ for individuals this also is the very base of our own understanding .We know very well what is most typical and general .We understand something uncommon by referring it into a common things or actions we understand .So our very base of understanding is reliant upon some general truth or common events ,their state which we call normal .Now once we something out of order within a play (e.g. WAITIG FOR GODOT) ,we interpret it with regards to those ‘ commons’ individuals memory .But about this view we analyze , can uncommon or absurdity be perceived by us directly without aid or reference to our specification of ‘normality’ ? It is a lot like what Rene’ Wellek aimed to explain in her essay ‘ATTACK ON LITERATURE’ by citing a good example of Samuel Beckett’s ENDGAME .Becket has portrayed a personality in END GAME who has been ‘ searching for the voice of his silence ‘(13).’The artist’s dissatisfaction with language is only able to be expressed by language .Pause might be a device to show the inexpressible ,but pause can’t be prolonged indefinitely ,cann’t be simply silence consequently . It needs contrast , it takes a new along with an end…’(14).
This statement suggests the significance of contrast and this is really as true in case of absurdity and non-absurdity as it’s true with regards to silence and music .
In this particular light we are able to reach decision there’s no sense of absurdity with no normality . But exactly how this is regarding Go dot is usually analyzed the following :
Beckett tries tough to achieve absurdity by doing through his characters , the abnormal things (or at least normal things in abnormal sequence ), there to stay remains to be the elements of non-absurdity in each and every corner in the play . The boy who doesn’t recognize the 2 tramps bring message on the same Go dot (It never happens ever which go dot brings a note from your boy ;or perhaps the tramps bring message from your boy to go dot ;or tramps speak out of the message that this boy brings through the Go dot on their behalf ;or Go dot never receives message from tramps so many could be the absurd case ).It was only one angle of interpretation from the situation .Other interpretations might be many in numbers :Go dot waits for tramps ;or tramps don’t loose time waiting for Go dot while they say they waited. etc. etc.
When I mean to say is that whatever action is conducted inside the play has and so the components of non-absurdity .We can easily have recognized them if what we should call absurdity will be the most normal and what we should now feel normal could have been absurd .In truth we can’t express absurdity itself which may be the deceiving nature of ‘Absurdity’ , considering that the moment we speak out something it is a bit totally different from that which you originally supposed to express . ‘Words , the medium of fiction ,really are a fabrication of man’s intellect .They can be an integral part of human lie ‘(14).And as a consequence any literature needs that medium to get expressed , that becomes deceptive .So Roland Barthes of France says therefore that ‘Literature is often a system of deceptive signification…emphatically signifying ,but never finally signified ‘(16).
Therefore whatever actions Beckett attempted to fabricated in the play , stands till today between in the limits of absurd and non-absurd and the way this process is nearer to these two limits is dependent upon what test is used and ways in which they are utilised to define the limits .
That’s why the play ‘..in the supposedly esoteric avant-grade make so immediate therefore deep a direct impact on an audience of convicts…’(17),where as the critics can’t easily accepted the play being an art at the start .
Martin Esslin writes : ‘ because it confronted them [the prisoners] having a situation somewhat analogous to their personal ? Perhaps . Or perhaps simply because were un sophisticated enough to find the theater without any preconceived notions and readymade expectations ,so they really avoided whole body that trapped numerous established critics who condemned the play because of its lack of plot ,development , characterizations , suspense or plain commonsense ‘(18).As well as this is just what we see because the attempt to define absurd with non-absurd .Similarly many other attempts have already been manufactured in yesteryear and give create uncommon away from common .Including the Dadaist Movement . ‘Attempts have already been made not only to widen the whole world of art ,but to abolish the boundary involving the art and also the non-art . In music , noises of machines or streets are used ; in painting, collage uses stuck-on news papers , buttons , medals and so on , or ‘found objects’ -soup cans , bicycle wheels , electric bulbs , a piece of content of junks-are exhibited . the most recent fad is ‘earth works’ , holes or trenches in the earth , tracks by using a corn field , square sheets of leads in snow . A ‘sculptor’ , Christo wrapped a thousand square centimeter of Australian coastline in plastic . At 1972 Bicnnale in Venice , a painter ,Gino de Dominicis , exhibited a mongoloid grabbed from the streets as a work of art .In poetry poems happen to be concocted because of the Dadaists by drawing news paper clippings from the bag arbitrarily ; more recently poems have been that is generated by computer plus a shuffle novel (by Marc Saporta ) has appeared , during which every page might be replaced by another in different order …’(18).
Similarly we can cite the example of Pop-Culture now so well received by the young generations ,that has been once considered as absurd .Precisely what conclusion we reached are visible in the sunshine of the contrast theory of silence and music told with this essay in the beginning , that whatever we would like to express (whether it is ‘Silence’ or ‘Absurdity’ ) we require words to express . But ‘a word cannot become a thing ‘(20).And then we can either achieve a scenario or express it , but we can’t do both because , if we try and do , your situation won’t function as same .This is exactly what you can imply whenever we speak of absurdity ; i.e. we can’t be totally absurd in expression because there is no proper medium exists .
By concluding i think I’ve got reached for the ‘ right place with the right time’ , because if I am right i then will achieve the right thing , however, if I reach the wrong (while i are certain to get non-sense)that’ll be rather a right thing due to our context . My attempt of criticism , ‘ is surely an attempt to make us more reasonable’

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