《等待戈多group》PPT课件

protection --has a poor memory, as Vladimir has to remind
him in the second act of the events that happened the previous night.
Concerns about Western anxiety and selfdoubt in the 20th century.
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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。
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.
5. Departure of Boy Messenger:
Vladimir and Estagon alone
Vladmir and Estragon
alone
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the critic Vivian Mercier wrote that Beckett "has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett
ⅠA Brief Introduction Ⅱ Characters; Language; Symbolism Ⅲ Background; Theme; Conclusion
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A Brief Introduction to Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot
3. Departure of Pozzo and
Lucky: Vladimir and
Lucky: Vladimir and
Estragon alone
Estragon alone
4. Arrival of Boy Messenger
4. Arrival of Boy Messenger
5. Departure of Boy Messenger:
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ACTⅠ
ACTⅡ
1. Vladimir and Estragon
1. Vladimir and Estragon alone
alone
2. Arrival of Pozzo and Lucky
2. Arrival of Pozzo and Lucky:
Lucky’s speech
3. Departure of Pozzo and
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Characters
❖ Vladimir ： - -Estragon calls him Didi, and the boy addresses
him as Mr. Albert --responsible and mature ❖ Estragon： --Vladimir calls him Gogo --weak and helpless, always looking for Vladimir's
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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.
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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.
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。
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His Drama
Theatre of the Absurd: Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence.
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.