Waiting for Godot by Smuel Buckett

 

Existentialism means one can create their own personal/subjective meaning. Init ,trying to find another meaning. There is unresolved confusion of human world. It's concerned with the problem of living life as a human being. Satre's "Is existentialism a humanism". In it,for satre human are fundamentally different from things like car,phones so on. As an ethiest he did not believe human were 'designed'. In existentialism person question 'what was the reason behind the living a life?' They try to find another meaning. 'What was the purpose behind living life as human being'. While in nihilism no meaning or purpose of life.
Theater of absurd means quite different from traditional play,different itself is definition of theater of absurd. Theater of absurd is for feeling not for understanding. Means the meaning is not in the word,we have to apply our own idea. Nothingness,hopelessness,meaningness has something in the play,and they are central theme in the play. This type of play shows meaninglessness of human existance. We can't find action here,there is only conversation in character,so in a way it is monotonous. As ee seen in the traditional play,it has plot,character are convincing but in the absurd play there is no plot,no begining,no middle,no end and also here character are not convincing. In traditional play there is some problem and at the end it's solve but in absurd play problem occurs at the end.
In the setting ,Becket uses
1)tree
2)countryside road
3)evening
In first act tree has no leaves but in act two Becket grows some leaves. So,it shows that there is some kind of hope in act two. Because boy already said that godot is comeing so there is hope. Countryside road is symbol for endless waiting.there is no end for waiting. And through evening , may be Becket wants to show darkness. Here,darkness is in the mind of character. How they typically behave means master-slave relation and vladimir's madly behave for godot.