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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 547 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was born in Ireland in 1906. His family was both relatively well to do and fairly eccentric. Athletic and imposing,
Beckett was also awkward and socially maladjusted. This all comes to play in "Endgame" where we see the twisted remains of two
couples, interacting with a brutal vocabulary. Beckett's early life is particularly linked to the exchanges between Nagg and Hamm;
ostensibly a father-son relationship that has ceased to be anything but an exchange …showed first 75 words of 547 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 547 total…to Beckett's
excessively self-critical mind, successful.
To summarize the meaning of the play in Beckett's mind, he once wrote to Professor Yasunari Takahashi of Tokyo University. Prof.
Takahashi is a leading translator of Shakespeare and the only recognized translator of Beckett into Japanese. In the letter,
Beckett writes, "It is my intention to create as deep, wide and dark a gulf as is possible, between the stage and the audience…and
then jump over it."
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