Samuel Beckett seminar Aba

 1906=1989
 13 april
 Last Supper
 Good Friday
 Irish writer
 Atheist
 The secretary of James Joyce who created the experimentalist subtrend- Finnegans Wake
 Communication-not enough in order to render reality- absurd
 Signifier-signified- Ferdinand de Saussure
 Waiting for Godot-1952
 Godot - God + "-ot" (French suffix)- smaller God-the author is an atheist- absurd dimension- he
can also be something- an epiphany-transformation of life- a symbol of various things
 Setting ( time/place)-evening, a country road, a mound, a ditch-the degradation
 Characters:
 Vladimir- Didi: hat, head, mind, Rene Descartes: rationalist philosopher, Cartesian split- body-
mind
 Estragon-Gogo: boots, feet, body, ying-feminine and yang masculine principle, instinctual, anti-
feminist perspective in the play,
 Beckett and his wife- viewed as an inferior being
 Pozzo and Lucky: master, servant, slave, leash round his neck
 Masquerading the idea of -
 Pozzo-totalitarian ruler
 A boy and his brother- Cain and Abel
 The boy- goats-well treated – Abel
 His brother-sheep- badly treated-Cain
 Divine justice is questionable

 1. the theme (the main idea):waiting, time, the unreliability of the bible
 2. title
 3. narration/ description/ metatext/ dialogue: dialogue
 4. Protagonists
 5. Atmosphere: confusion,boredom, insistence, tension

 6. The point of view: No

 7. Style (fig. of speech): repetiotions: from deat, from death, \verbal irony,
 epithets, comparisons, metaphors, etc
 8. Language & grammar
 register - formal, informal, neutral, colloquial, vulgar, popular: colloquial and vulgar
 Esse est percipi-Bishop Berkeley