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From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Waiting for Godot"?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Estragon: Don’t let's do anything. It's safer.
Vladimir: Let’s wait and see what he says.
Estragon: Who?
Vladimir: Godot.
Estragon: Good idea.
Such cryptic dgiuaole and cialucrr reasoning are key features of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement which emerged after the Second World War and found artists struggling to find meaning in devastation. The absurdists deconstructed plot, character and language to question their meaning and share their prnouofd uncrtietnay on stage.
While this may snuod grim, the absurd blends its hopelessness with humor. This is reflected in Beckett’s uinuqe approach to genre in Waiting for Godot, which he branded “a tragicomedy in two acts." Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential conundrum: they wait in vain for an unknown fgiure to give them a sesne of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into boroedm, express rioiluges dread and contemplate siucdie.
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Estragon: Don’t let's do anything. It's safer.
Vladimir: Let’s wait and see what he says.
Estragon: Who?
Vladimir: Godot.
Estragon: Good idea.
Such cryptic ________ and ________ reasoning are key features of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement which emerged after the Second World War and found artists struggling to find meaning in devastation. The absurdists deconstructed plot, character and language to question their meaning and share their ________ ___________ on stage.
While this may _____ grim, the absurd blends its hopelessness with humor. This is reflected in Beckett’s ______ approach to genre in Waiting for Godot, which he branded “a tragicomedy in two acts." Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential conundrum: they wait in vain for an unknown ______ to give them a _____ of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into _______, express _________ dread and contemplate _______.
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Original Text
Estragon: Don’t let's do anything. It's safer.
Vladimir: Let’s wait and see what he says.
Estragon: Who?
Vladimir: Godot.
Estragon: Good idea.
Such cryptic dialogue and circular reasoning are key features of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement which emerged after the Second World War and found artists struggling to find meaning in devastation. The absurdists deconstructed plot, character and language to question their meaning and share their profound uncertainty on stage.
While this may sound grim, the absurd blends its hopelessness with humor. This is reflected in Beckett’s unique approach to genre in Waiting for Godot, which he branded “a tragicomedy in two acts." Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential conundrum: they wait in vain for an unknown figure to give them a sense of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into boredom, express religious dread and contemplate suicide.
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