waiting for godot Samuel Beckett English Books•Classics
White Nights•Dracula•The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 1/2•Peter Pan•Frankenstein•Wuthering Heights•The Strange Case of Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde•The Secret Garden•The Picture of Dorian Gray•The Great Gatsby•Alice In Wonderland•The Willow and Other Stories
In a meaningless universe, it is always foolhardy to make a positive statement. Ten different modes of the breakdown of language have been noted in play. They range from simple misunderstanding and double intendres to monologues, (as signs of inability to communicates) cliché’s repetitions of synonyms, inability to find the right words and telegraphic style of language (loss to grammatical structure), to luckys’ farrago of chaotic nonsense and dropping of punctuation marks, such as question marks, as an indication that language as lost its function as a mean of communication. Waiting for Godot can also be regarded as a play that have meaningless language, because neither it makes a (considerable) use of dream and fantasy nor it employs conscious poetic language “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes it’s awful” There is no exposition, complication, climax denouement and resolution. The play does not have any cathartic effect, language shows incompleteness of everything. Language is as blank everywhere, that even the and of play could be beginning of any act and so on. There is no perpetuity that can feels through language:Bottom of Form