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Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett ⅠA Brief Introduction Ⅱ Characters; Language; Symbolism Ⅲ Background; Theme; Conclusion A Brief Introduction to Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. Wrote in both French＆English His work: a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor. Concerns about Western anxiety and self- doubt in the 20th century. His Novels His trilogy : Molloy (1951); Malone Dies (1958) The Unnamable, (1960). 绝少涉及真实的社会生活场景和具体的社会问题，而是致力于揭示人类生存的困惑、焦虑、孤独以及现代社会中人们丧失自主意识后的悲哀。 他的小说没有连贯的情节和动人的故事，其晦涩程度和当时勃兴的意识流小说并无差别。 多采用一种环形封闭的结构，情节不断繁衍而又不断消解。主要情节被不断打结和扯断，直至被叙事彻底解构。 His Drama Theatre of the Absurd: Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence. Three important plays: Waiting for Godot; Happy Days; Endgame His plays have a cyclical structure：like a diminishing spiral---- the world and the people in it are slowly but inexorably running down. Waiting For Godot An absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. The Setting: a landscape, strange and alien, a country road or an actual lonely road, a single tree. No final closure in the Beckettian universe, the characters take refuge in repetition, repeating their own actions and words and often those of others----- in order to pass the time. ACTⅠ ACTⅡ 1. Vladimir and Estragon alone 2. Arrival of Pozzo and Lucky 3. Departure of Pozzo and Lucky: Vladimir and Estragon alone 4. Arrival of Boy Messenger 5. Departure of Boy Messenger: Vladimir and Estagon alone Vladimir and Estragon alone 2. Arrival of Pozzo and Lucky: Lucky’s speech 3. Departure of Pozzo and Lucky: Vladimir and Estragon alone 4. Arrival of Boy Messenger 5. Departure of Boy Messenger: Vladmir and Estragon alone the cri