M.K. Bhavnagar university department of English

Name:- Rathod Neha R.Class:- M.A. sem-4Roll no:- 27Email id:- neharathod108@gmail.comYear:- 2016-2017Paper:- 14Topic:- Title Waiting for Godot and Waiting for Barbarians

Title Waiting for Godot and Waiting for Barbarians

Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett was born on

13 April, 1906 at Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland and died on 22 December, 1989 in Paris. His pen name was Andrew Belis. He was a novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist.

Samuel Beckett is a renowned Irish dramatist and novelist. “Waiting for Godot” is his well-known play. The play is one of the classic works of theatre of absurd.

Samuel Beckett

In Waiting for Godot in six character Vladimir and EstragonPozzo and LuckyThe BoyGodotVladimir and Estragon both are central character.

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ belongs to the tradition of the Theatre of Absurd. It is unconventional in not depicting any dramatic conflicts. In the play, practically nothing happened, no development is to be found, there is no beginning and no end. The entire action boils down in an absurd setting of a country side road with two tramps Vladimir and Estragon who simply idle away their time waiting for Godot about whom they have only vague ideas.

The title of the play thus brings into our mind about the meaningless waiting and it is the waiting for Godot who may stand for God, or for a mythical human being, or for the meaning of life, or for death or for something else.

Waiting for Barbarians He is a south African

novelist. He writes many novels It was chosen by Penguin

for its series Great Books of the 20th century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.

It is first published in 1960

J.M. Coetzee

In waiting for barbarians Barbarian Girl The Magistrate Colonel JollThis characters are central character.

The barbarians those menaces the towns are never seen, the “absurd prisoners” brought back by the Third Bureau are abject and ridiculous.

we can see theme of colonialism in this novel that how the people of empire torture to the people who were the actually owner of the land who were barbarians according to the Third bureau. And so it becomes most important theme in this novel.

The Magistrate has power over the soldiers and civilians, and the Colonel has power over the Magistrate, as with any hierarchy. In this story, power is authority, maybe granted by a higher authority figure, but also a subconscious power, like the girl has over the Magistrate.

Here we can see that Wait for Godot or Barbarian But they have never come… that is symbolized that they have not wait for any person or people but they have wait for death…