Relationship between Estragon and Vladimir as Body and Soul. – Samuel
beckett Name: Deepika VajaPaper : The Modernist literature Topic: Relationship between Estragon and Vladimir as Body and Soul. Enrollment no: PG14101031.Year & class: 2014-16 & M.A -2Roll no:[email protected] Dept. of English M. K. Bhavnagar University.
• About Samuel Beckett.• About waiting for godot.• Why Vladimir and Estragon represent soul
and body?• Relationship between Estragon and
Vladimir as Body and Soul.• Symbols of ‘Boot’ and ‘Hat’ has represent
of both personality.• Example .• Conclusion .
About Samuel Beckett.• He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1906.• He was poet, playwright and story writer.• He was protestant middle class person. And
he say that ‘I had little talent for happiness’.• His work:Waiting for godotEndgameMalone dieThe unnamable
About waiting for godot.
• It is originally wrote in French 1948, Beckett translated the play into English.
• Vladimir and Estragon are protagonist. Both are waiting for unknown person Mr.Godot. But he never came.
• Waiting for Godot was part of theater of absurd. This implies that it is meant to be irrational.
• It is nothingness, waiting and absurd ideas in the play.
Why Vladimir and Estragon represent soul and body?
• We found that absurd theater does away with the concepts of dram, chronological plot, logical language, theme, recognizable setting.
• There is also split between the intellect and body within the work.
• That’s why Vladimir as soul and Estragon as body.
• So both whom cannot exist without the other.
Relationship between Estragon and Vladimir as Body and Soul.
EstragonBody
physical
VladimirSoul
intellect
Symbols of ‘Boot’ and ‘Hat’ has represent of both personality.
•Estragon’s Boot •Physical •Sleep, forget everything
•Vladimir’s Hat•Mental •Thinking, intellect, remember to Mr.Godot.
‘Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first. We were respectable in those days. Now it's too late. They wouldn't even let us up.’ – Vladimir.
•‘I may be mistaken. (Pause.) Let's stop talking for a minute, do you mind?’•‘Nothing to be done’. – Estragon
Example …• Indian religious in body and
soul are necessary. Only soul (Atma) never leave or existence to biological world of without body.
• It is need of body.
Conclusion • As mind controls body, Vladimir controls
Estragon in the worst suicide situations. • Therefore, Estragon represents the body of a
person, to have simple understanding.• while Vladimir represents mind (soul). This is
the way that Beckett unconsciously split into two different aspects of a single person- body (Estragon) and soul/mind (Vladimir).
• So thus that, Beckett unconsciously penned two distinct physical bodies and mind both are necessary.
Source :• Original text of Waiting for Godot by
Beckett.• Wikipedia. 4 oct 2015
<http://www.en.Wikipeadi.org/Samuel Beckett_Biography.com>.
• YouTube. 15 oct 2015 <http://www.Youtube/Deewangee_Movie.com>.
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