English-Honours-Guide

In the English edition of Waiting For Godot, the play is described as a tragicomedy. Before going ahead further, it needs to be made clear what a tragicomedy is and how it is different from dark comedy. Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to the lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. A dark comedy is a subgenre of comedy that makes light of terrible situations. Waiting for Godot never makes light of terrible aspects life. There are several mentions of death in the play but the characters never make fun of death or for that matter any terrible things in the play. However, there are many incidents in the play that are hilarious and we can laugh watching those hilarious scenes without having any guilt. The play opens with a negative thought- Nothing to be done. At first when we see Es...

What Is The Meaning Of Godot?   Who Is Godot? What Does He Stand For?                  The first question that comes to mind after reading or watching Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is who is Godot? or What is Godot a symbol of? The dramatist too does not specifically mention who or what Godot is. The audience too are left guessing. When Beckett was asked who or what was meant by Godot, he replied," If I knew I would have said so in the play." However by such a statement we should not conclude that Beckett actually did not know about Godot. He in reality, wanted his readers to interpret Godot in various ways suitable to them. Hence a variety of interpretations have been proposed regarding Godot, since the publication of Beckett's waiting for Godot.               Many critics suggested that the word Godot is a diminutiv...