“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett

 “Waiting for Godot” by  Samuel Beckett    

Samuel Beckett is a renowned Irish dramatist and novelist. “Waiting for Godot” is his well-known play. The play is one of the classic works of theatre of absurd. According to the play, a human being's life is totally dependent on chance, and, by extension, time is meaningless. Beckett also deals with nothingness in Waiting for Godot it shows some deep meaning in life in different way. His pen name was Andrew Belis. This paper provides a brief overview of Theatre of absurd. The play Theatre of absurd lack a logical and conventional structure which is the representation of absurd predicament.

   Samuel Beckett was inspired from the painting of Casper David Friedrich,these two painting Provides the idea of plot in the play. The setting is in the evening on a county road with a single tree presents.

 “Nothingness”is a central theme of this play. In play waiting for godot, two characters are repetitive of this dialogues ‘Nothing to be done’ And repetitive of action we found like On a country road , by a tree, two old tramps, Vladimir and Estrangon , are waiting. But we can interpret “nothingness in to something,there is hope that something will happened good.