The Absurdity in the Reality: An Analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Abstract
Beckett is a famous playwright and novelist in Irish, Waiting for Godot (1953) is his well-known work, and it is a drama which has the influence in world-wide scale. There are a lot of discuss about the contents and express-way of Waiting for Godot. As a representative play of the drama of the absurd, Beckett wrote this drama in a different way which opposites the traditional form of drama, and the writer used this anti-traditional form to express his recognition to the absurd world. The main features are anti-plot, anti-character, and anti-language. So, we can say that this is a revolt drama. Martin Esslin thought this drama reflect the moral condition of western modern people, and the moral crisis. Therefore, I will introduce the logical knowledge about the drama of the absurd in the first part. Then, in the second part, I will analyze the absurdity of the drama on the basic of the logical knowledge. The point of the third part is the reality of the drama which reflects, and the reality is the plight of existence and moral crisis.
Key Words: Waiting for Godot; absurdity; reality; moral crisis; meaning of life
摘 要
貝克特是愛爾蘭著名的劇作家和小說家，他的《等待戈多》（1953）是1部在世界範圍內產生重大影響的荒誕派戲劇，其內容和表現手法引起了後人的眾多討論。作為荒誕派戲劇的代表性作品，《等待戈多》1劇採用了1種和傳統戲劇完全迥異的手法來表現劇作家對這個荒誕世界的認識，這主要表現在反情節，反人物，反語言等幾個方面。可以說，這是1部“反叛”的戲劇。著名戲劇理論家埃斯林認為這部戲劇體現了現代西方人的1種精神狀態，以及由此派生出來的`信仰危機和精神危機。因此，本文將先在第1部分介紹荒誕派戲劇的起源和特點等理論知識，繼而，第2部分將在理論知識的基礎上來分析該劇在表現手法上的荒誕性，第3部分將重點該劇如何真實的反映了當代人類的1種生存困境和精神危機。
關鍵詞：《等待戈多》、荒誕、真實、精神危機、生命的意義
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