MÓNICA PANADERO SAYAS

Teatro Inglés Siglos XIX y XX

Grupo B

WAITING FOR GODOT

(Tragic comedy in two acts)

AUTHOR: Samuel Beckett

PUBLISHING: Faber and Faber

AGE AND PLACE OF PUBLICATION: 1965, London

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Vladimir: he is one of the protagonists, he is most responsible and mature.  It has great

affection to him friend Estragon who calls "Gogo” to him". He goes dress with old clothes and shoes that tighten to him

Estragon: he is the other protagonist, is not as responsible as Vladimir since he has very

little memory.  He also feels affection by his friend Vladimir who calls "Didi". Also he goes dress with old clothes

The boy: he is a young who appear at the end of each act announcing to Vladimir and

Estragon that Godot tonight will not come.  In the second act he assures not to know

these two characters.

Pozzo: he is a old man.  He has a slave, who mistreats in the first act. In the second act

he remains blind person. He mistreats to Lucky with a whip

Lucky: It is the slave of Pozzo.  It is specie of animal-robot but it is not known with

certainty because it don't have coherence with its phrases. Lead by Pozzo with a cord tied to the neck, it takes a heavy suitcase, a chair, a basket with food and a shelter

PLOT: This play speaks of two men, Estragon and Vladimir, who are next to a tree.  They two are

waiting for a certain Godot, that neither they know if will come, nor how it is nor if are in the suitable site.  While they

maintain a conversation appears Pozzo and Lucky that serves to them as animation and after the short while Pozzo and

Lucky go away.  Vladimir and Estragon continue hoping.  Spent a time appear a boy and it says

to them that Godot today will not be able to come but that tomorrow yes and the boy goes away.  On the following

day it happens the same but only it remembers

Vladimir since Estragon does not have good memory.

SPACE: is an only and very simple space, is a tree in a highway in the middle of the field.  There aren't changes of scene in all the play.

TIME:  the play to take place in two acts.  In the first ac is the afternoon of the first day and the second act corresponds to the second day that takes place in the morning.  It is a coherent play that does not have jumps in the time.

LITERARY RESOURCES: written in prose using monosyllables, short phrases perhaps to give more agility and emphasis to the play.  The language is colloquial but with some vulgarisms since it uses insults.

POLITICO-SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES:  they are times after the war.  Are vagabond characters.

SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS:  by some unknown reason one of characters, Lucky, it is treated like an anima

PERSONAL OPINION:  the play contains ideas of Beckett like for example the

suffering of the human, or to question the bible, I say this because to my to seem Godot

here is like God, a character of who nothing knows and that much people consider in

her or his life if exists or no. When reading the play irritated to me to arrive in the end to know if Godot would arrive or

not and knowledge that was in fact, is something that this in uncertainty in all the play.  What I have not liked anything

is the mistreat of Lucky, I will never understand why the people mistreat