Thinking Activity on Waiting for Godot

Thinking Activity on the Waiting for Godot

Hello reader this blog is response task given by my teacher Dr. Dilip barad in this blog after seen movie I am trying to give answer. 

1.In both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would you like to interpret this 'coming of night and moon' when actually they are waiting for Godot. 

Evening falls into night and Moon rises I would like to Interpret that as a positive or Negative both ways if go into Archetypral reading Night is symbol of Darkness and sad. In this play this is also as sad and boringness waiting for Godot to another day it is also negative and useless if we seen this night interpretion as a positive way night is positive waiting for another day to come Godot.if we seen over daily life night is also symbol of Positive triedness  of whole day we come home sleep and forgel whole day's suffering, pain and disaster. 

2.The Director feels the setting with some debris. Can you read any meaning in the contour of debris in the setting of the play? 

Play setting with some debris this play setting on the after World War 2 I think that's why director uses debris in the play like war hunt everything of people and also after war people lost everything because of bomb and attack, loose of people, shelterless but capitalist or if we interpret as God or followers because of them made war everyone suffer for them but they not care people waiting for Godot or God to make situation different like Indian philosophy wait for 'Kalaki' avtaar. 

3.Do you agree: “The play (Waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: 'No matter what— atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, anything—life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can't kill life." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?

I agree this play was positive play.In over whole life we wait for over Godot. In this play end with hope to another day to come Godot. If we seen over life goes on in any situation like over nowadays life Ukraine, Russia War kill many people Bomb, shelterless, debris but over life goes on we celebrate over festival we live over life with joy in same world same time also we seen corona virus time many people died most of people lost their employment for some people is vacation and they spending time with family they play games like ludo, cards. I remember one trending song life goes on.. On.. 

4.Do you think that the obedience of Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable?

Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic he was slave tied with a rope, carry luggage Basket his behaviour is so irritating After his Master Pozzo blind his behavior is same he give the Rope his Master behave like animal after seen Lucky's behaviour I remember one story which I listen in My Childhood little Elephant cub hold with Iron Chain everyday. After become young Elephant hold with thin rope it thinks like this is also iron chain and it was never try to broken it like lucky is Elephant habit of Rope. 

5.Do you think that plays like this can better be ‘read’ than ‘viewed’ as it requires a lot of thinking on the part of readers, while viewing, the torrent of dialogues does not give ample time and space to ‘think’? Or is it that the audio-visuals help in better understanding of the play?

Reading and Watching both is better but viewing play as a movie is different experience we visual symbol tree with Leaf,debris,moon Rises description of Lucky and pozzo visual is better to understand but if we going to Justify dialogue read is more appropriate in watching play dialogue going to very fast not fully capture and laugh on that difficult to understand. 

6.Which of the following sequence you liked the most:

o   Vladimir – Estragon killing time in questions and conversations while waiting

o   Pozzo – Lucky episode in both acts

o   Conversation of Vladimir with the boy. 

Vladimir and Estragon killing time in question and conversation while waiting. This sequence I like most specially they are taking of Bible and Gospel Estragon not know anything or some dialogue like 

"Nothing to be done"

"No one comes no one goes it's awful "

"People are bloody ignorant apes"

Every time Estagon forgets why they are here, the answer given by Estragon is More interesting and Reality of life.

There is some cartoon image of Vladimir and Estrogan