WAITING FOR GODOT STUDY GUIDE

Cette application propose le jeu Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot Study Guide.

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters.

Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1990 it was voted the "most significant English language play of the 20th century".

This app contains the study guide of the Waiting for Gordot play.

Study Guide content:

-Plot Overview

-Summary and Analysis of all Acts and Scenes

-Character List

-Context

-Theme of Choices

-Theme of Philosophical Viewpoints: The Absurd

-Theme of Truth

-Theme of Life, Consciousness, and Existence

-Theme of Time

-Theme of Religion

-Theme of Friendship

-The of Freedom and Confinement

-Theme of Suffering

-Theme of Mortality

-Character Analysis: Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky, and Godot

-Symbolism:

-Duality

-The Tree

-Nightfall and the Rising Moon

-The Carrot

-Lucky's Dance

-The Hats, The Boots, The Vaporizer

-Smell

-Setting

-Narrator Point of View

-Genre

-Tone

-Writing Style

-What's Up With The Title?

-Booker's Seven Basics Plot Analysis

-Trivia

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