“Waiting”

Prepared byVaidehi HariyaniSemester - 3Batch-2015-2017Department of English,MKBU

“Ceaseless Waiting” is the central theme of both the play and the film.

Waiting for Godot• Play• Samuel Beckett• 1953• Major characters

– Vladimir and Estragon.

Waiting

• Film• Anu Menon• 2015• Major characters

– Tara and Shiv.

Areas of Comparison

• Characters and their unlikely friendship• Repetition of Daily Routine• Hope• Unanswered Questions

• Vladimir - Estragon • Shiv - Tara

UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP

• Practical – Idealist• Remembers – for

gets• Stronger –

Weaker• Hopeful -

skeptical

• Calm – Aggressive• Simple – Techno

freak• Cannot speak

abusive language- Can speak abusive language.• Stronger –

weaker• Mature – childish

(Generation Gap)

Vladimir-Estragon Shiv - Tara

REPETITION OF Daily routine• Act 1 similar to

Act 2• For example –

Leaves on tree in Act2.

• Leaves can be read as routine. Nature do not care whether you are happy or unhappy.

• According to existentialists, Nature ahs nothing to do with our life.

• In the film, Shiv explains Tara how one can follow the daily routine to move on in life….

• Shiv and Tara are on different stages of grief, but their predicament is similar.

Albert Camus on “Existentialism”• One of the pioneer of Existentialism.• According to him, there two ways to

deal with the disappointment in life.

Hope• Boy – “Godot will not come today. He will surely come tomorrow.”

Unanswered questions• In the Play, i. Who is Godot?ii. Will he ever

come?iii. Where to go?iv. Why are we

waiting for Godot?

• In the film, i. When will the

loved ones recover?

ii. Will Shiv’s wife ever get back to normal life?

iii. Will Tara’s husband get better?

iv. Where they can go ?

Answers to unanswered questions• In both the film, the answer of these questions is to wait…..• Be hopeful while you wait…..

So What???????• Waiting is something we all do in our life.• Waiting can be anything and it can be for

anyone.• “Ceaseless Waiting’ is the theme of

everyone’s life.• We can do something while we wait.• If we won’t do anything while we wait….

Then this ceaseless waiting will never end.

Reference• http://

bhumijoshi.blogspot.in/2016/11/movie-review-waiting.html• https://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot• http://

dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2016/09/existentialism-video-resources.html• Google Images

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