Name :- Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai Class: M.A. Sem-3• Roll No.: 12• Paper No :9( The Modernist literature)• Email – ID: ak.gohel4433@gmail.com• Submitted To: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Relationship between Estragon and Vladimir as a Body and Soul

About the Samuel Beckett• He was born in Dublin in 1906.• He was poet, playwright and story

writer.• Beckett awarded the noble prize in

1969.• His work: Waiting for godot Endgame Malone die The Unnamable.

Waiting for Godot

• The Play “ Waiting for Godot” is a associated with the ‘ Theatre of Absurd”.

• In this Play There are Two main character like Vladimir and Estragon.

• Both of the character waiting for a unknown person named Godot but at the End godot never come.

• The play based on the idea of nothingness , waiting and Absurdity.

• In the Play There are not begging and not ending and no plot and no story.

Estragon

Vladimir Intellect

physical

Characters Vladimir Estragon

•Estragon’s Boot •Physical •Emotional•foolishness•Sleep, •forget everything

•Vladimir’s Hat•Mental •Thinking,•Stronger•Philosopher •intellect, •remember to Mr.Godot.

Relationship between Estragon and Vladimir as Body and Soul.

boots; While Vladimir is engaged in taking off his hat, peering in it and putting it on his head.In this play Beckett has given all the physical torments and suffering to Estragon and give mental pain to Vladimir.

Throughout the play, we see Estragon engaged in trying to take off and put on his boots; While Vladimir is engaged in taking off his hat and peering in it and putting it on his head.

Here we can say that Estragon represents the physical split and Vladimir the mental split of the assumed person,

Estramir= Estragon+ Vladimir

Example

According Indian religion, One cannot separate body from mind. They live together. In the absence of one, another has no value. So, Vladimir and Estragon always live with each other.

Beckett unconsciously split Estramir into two different aspects of a single person: body (Estragon) and soul/mind (Vladimir). Therefore, Estragon represents the body of a person, to have simple understanding of Estramir and Vladimir represents mind (soul) of Estramir. So, we can say that Beckett present two leading characters has a psychological( body) and biological( mind) split of imaginary character named Estramir .

Conclusion