watching this for a class. I wish that the burden of being forced to do something was not a thing. learning would be more fun and we'd appreciate things like this more. Thank you for posting this. It is very informational
@netsong22393 жыл бұрын
You are not forced to watch this. One may have compulsory school but even then they do not have to do anything. You could skip class or do something else but you are there because you consider it beneficial or fun. In schools there quite often are assignments for the students to analyze things such as a play and when a student thinks of the play and writes their thoughts down in a comprehensible way they think of it more and more and understand it more thoroughly compared to just watching it on their free time. Of course you are free to do such things on your free time. You are free to do whatever you wish and are not bound to a teacher you most probably chose as your teacher.
@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock2 жыл бұрын
If you weren't forced to, you wouldn't do anything.
@zainabshams010m62 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@G-ManXErlik2 жыл бұрын
@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock You are wrong.
@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock2 жыл бұрын
@@G-ManXErlik oh? Do go on, I'm fascinated
@charlieshay13383 жыл бұрын
I would argue that Lucky remains subservient to Pozzo because it gives his life meaning, he is the only character with a purpose hence why he is named Lucky, Beckett is saying that he is Lucky to have something to work for.
@annevanasch66893 жыл бұрын
thanks
@azaichissi59803 жыл бұрын
Does this really count as meaning? Meaning is what makes u feel valuable I guess, but what's the point of finding meaning if it is by finding ourselves slaves for Power and political systems and work? We are tricked into thinking there's meaning in what we do if it's like that. There's no great meaning or something to wait for. We should just live.... My proof is the guy saying there's plenty of leaves when there isn't much.
@MTech073 жыл бұрын
To be honest, when you are desperate, any meaning is valid.
@surenaemnm372411 ай бұрын
Never thought of it that way. Ur logic sounds reasonable since lucky is obedient even when Pozzo is blind
@marisabenson12225 ай бұрын
I hadn't thought about that but you may be right because I don't think that writers randomly name their characters. Especially not when there are so few and all the names are uncommon. Then again maybe the randomness is the idea. Maybe Beckett would disagree with our attempts to find meaning in a name, in a character and in his play.
Fascinating. Where Lovecraft needed to create monsters beyond imagination to inspire a feeling of insignificance, all Beckett did was point out what we're doing. How terrifically bleak.
@balorclub37744 жыл бұрын
The best analysis of the drama is in of course in Course Hero. ♥️♥️♥️❤️
@UlzzangHaifa4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much..that was really helpful..i have a drama exam about ''waiting for Gadot'' tomorrow and this really helped me to understand few points❤
@saidshifi4831 Жыл бұрын
You should be a moroccan student 😅
@ishmaeelyacoob12924 ай бұрын
Writing mine tomorrow
@navpreetbanga5 ай бұрын
this video literally got me 80% on my ESSAY! THANK YOU!
@bblulz75543 жыл бұрын
writing an essay on this and it helped a lot. thank you!!
@amel91264 жыл бұрын
Uploaded at the right time!
@danielfin0032 жыл бұрын
Like a lot of Beckett, I believe this is a play about the workings of ONE body. I keep finding references to subtle body systems in a lot of his work. On my most recent reread of Godot, it was really apparent. Very generally, and top down, the same way the characters are introduced: Estragon is Anya - intuition, always wants to sleep or escape reality (his boots) as they hurt him, likes carrots (a clue). Vlad is Vishudda - he is rational expression, always telling Estragon what to do, concerned with the order of events and the concreteness of reality, carries turnips (a vaguer clue). The tree is Anahata - "everything's dead but the tree." Grows leaves after the boy first appears. Vlad and Estra spend their whole time around it, they even pretend to be it "for the balance," encounter it and want to hang themselves from it, try to hide behind it, but ultimately choose to wait. Pozzo is Manipura - forceful, willful, subjugating, likes to sit and eat. Lucky is Svadhisthana - creativity, sexuality (though completely at the mercy of Pozzo's will). When given agency, he can speak, though it's masturbatory in nature. Almost every interaction between Lucky and Pozzo is a dick joke. Carries two bags full of sand and a stool. Hah. The boy is Muladhara - doesn't know anything, just is. Tends the goats (and the Sheep). Knows Godot, but doesn't really know about him. Innocent, respectful, quick to flee. Now, to meet Godot (Sahasrara) at the tree, they stumble around the right idea, but never figure it out. Tragicomedy. Estra has the idea but not the rationale, Vlad has the rational (an erection! hmm... he ends up with Lucky's hat), Pozzo would have the will do to it and enough despair at the end, and Lucky literally has the rope. The boy confirms they're at the right place and Godot is coming, but also that Godot does nothing. To meet Godot, they should hang themselves. The whole thing reads very clearly and full of insight if you keep this in mind. Too long of a post, the end.
@danielfin0032 жыл бұрын
To be clear, "they should hang themselves" really means, they should throw all in on capital L love, or Christ Consciousness, or whathaveyou.
@cognitiumone Жыл бұрын
This explanation is much more compelling
@surenaemnm372411 ай бұрын
Ur comment made me smile. Well-developed and well-interpreted ❤
@hellskingZoroDa5 ай бұрын
How come you know of Chakras in the human body? It's Ancient Hindu Yogic Philosophy 🕉️ but what an amazing explanation connecting all those together
@gcinankala1023 жыл бұрын
The play doesn't have linear structure but a circular, the plot you you create is loosing the idea of absurd play
@jtsi4 жыл бұрын
Excellent and clear analysis...Thanks a ton!
@balorclub37744 жыл бұрын
Make a video analysis on Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court Is In Session. It's a tremendous play exploring the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society. Just go through it and make an analysis of this play. I am requesting you sir because your way of analysis and speaking make us mesmerised. Love from India and do produce more quality contents to help the students of Literature.
@kargonfow55634 жыл бұрын
Thank you man, it's really a very detailed and useful video 💙
@spinaroundwithriddhi4 жыл бұрын
Really too good....Russell your content is way much resourceful ✌👍
@mrbenoit5018 Жыл бұрын
Your energy level contrasts with that of the play
@ofostodata85943 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of Manny from Modern Family xD great vid
@mrcheckhammmer4 жыл бұрын
Great analysis. What an interesting play
@hamidrezaseilabadi8393 жыл бұрын
Concise and great as always.
@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock2 жыл бұрын
It can't be a coincidence that estragon, representing suffering, wears the same green and white ensemble as Prosecutor Godot
@leentalab3872 Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot 🙏this is really helpful 💜
@user-us6ce7me8k4 жыл бұрын
Great upload! 👌👌
@nusratbinteyousuf15394 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@mrbenoit5018 Жыл бұрын
Id argue the “climax”, as much as this play can have a climax, is vladimir’s soliloquy just after pozzo and lucky depart the second time
@IryneJemutai6 ай бұрын
Course Hero my hero
@surenaemnm372411 ай бұрын
Wonderful video. It was the first play I read by Beckett. Anyone has any othee suggestions I might enjoy?
@wielki_niepokorny4 ай бұрын
Happy Days, Endgame, Footfalls
@md.rashedkhanmanon19173 жыл бұрын
Thank you Very much Sir ❤️❤️
@seekthetruthfindit6879 Жыл бұрын
I'm wondering how a religious person think about this play?
@samitaakter2983 Жыл бұрын
Amazing. Thanks.
@bossanimetv465810 ай бұрын
Can you make a composition about waiting for godot?
@Youssef-vs8pq3 жыл бұрын
Plea could you talk about the games
@asclosetotedturnerasilleverbe3 жыл бұрын
This is great. Thank you.
@kaninikachatterjee60834 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@reemanalshahin7767 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much sir
@sultanozyer94253 жыл бұрын
hi may i ask you a text or some kinda subtitle of this video for people who's hearing impaired like me. thank you so much already now.
@mohammadazeemyaseen65863 жыл бұрын
The link of Course Hero website is in the description. Study material of this play is available on website. You can also turn on captions or download video and download subtitles from another website.
@SalemSalem-ig6ht4 жыл бұрын
What about the language they use
@aurahmanelegan1534 жыл бұрын
Thank You for the explanation 😊
@mahzabin90904 жыл бұрын
Thanking you soooo much!!!
@pinkypromise_3 жыл бұрын
I wish you could explain WHY some things are the way they are. Like the duality. We know there's certain repetition in the play, but why?
@greylithwolf2 жыл бұрын
My guess is that it's supposed to be indicative of the repetitive nature of living day after day.
@ringaroundthemoonyy2291 Жыл бұрын
there is duality because -i personally think- duality represents the balance of the world and relationships. everything exist with it's counterpart to complete each other; like black and white, femininity and masculanity and earth and sky.
@shortclub7011 Жыл бұрын
Life n death mate. Without death there is no life. Without life there is no death.
@xxdevilxx86573 жыл бұрын
What’s the importance of settings in waiting for Godot ?
@ringaroundthemoonyy2291 Жыл бұрын
it gives the sense of being universal all along. the setting or costumes do not give any characteristic of a specific time or place from earth, or like any culture, to imply all humanity's circumtance. the emptiness of the setting is because the writer already discourses the meaningless of the life, so he would make it as abstract as he could do.
@xxdevilxx8657 Жыл бұрын
@@ringaroundthemoonyy2291 Bruh ! I did graduate from uni I don’t need the answer anymore but thx 😂
@ringaroundthemoonyy2291 Жыл бұрын
@@xxdevilxx8657 hahaha i guessed but i wanted to share my idea anyways cause it may sometimes be very beneficial for life. youre welcomee
@xxdevilxx8657 Жыл бұрын
@@ringaroundthemoonyy2291 thank u sweety ♥️
@sarahlasbet29372 жыл бұрын
what if Vladimir was dreaming or hallucinating? what if they were in the purgatory?
@ur.cristiiano.o Жыл бұрын
In the meaningless absurdity we live in, the only answer is for people not to intentionally hurt each other and I think life will become so much better even if not perfect.. perfection is an illusion just like gods in the past and the abrahamic God we know today, let's just be good for no reason like heaven or smthn
@tnpoudel66563 жыл бұрын
very good i want video on man and superman as well
@Everyman777 Жыл бұрын
One major question has not been addressed in this analysis; Who is Godot? If Godot represents God, then the boy is a priest (tends the sheep and the goats, in other words, people). He says Godot treats him well, but beats his brother (God is capricious, life is random). He says Godot will come tomorrow (what priests say about the 2nd coming, or the rapture). Also the line 'What if we dropped him?' 'He'd punish us'. Only God (who they have never met, or even seen) could know that they had become atheists and so would send them to Hell.
@irenegomez5650 Жыл бұрын
I seriously struggle to understand why someone like Samuel Beckett got a Nobel Prize. I mean I get that authors of his time were trying to find a meaning to life after the world wars and everything, but I still don't fully understand the point of a play like this one.
@farahhajali48423 жыл бұрын
Well done.
@BradBrassman2 жыл бұрын
Beckett himself said that it was "the theatre of the absurd" and that it had no meaning.
@AsadAli-rs6ie2 жыл бұрын
What's difference between nihilism, absurdism and existancialism?
@SawanKumar-jo7zh4 жыл бұрын
That was amazing!
@will420high42 жыл бұрын
It's clearly about God, that by not existing, will never come for those who irrationaly keep waiting for him, waiting for a savior to provide meaning is a waste of life.
@Louveee.3 жыл бұрын
thaaaaaanks a lot
@PatriciaSilva-zh8lp2 жыл бұрын
Godot bless Course Hero!
@SerikPoliasc6 күн бұрын
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@panthersoul2 ай бұрын
5 characters…the boy is important
@zoegagnon37034 жыл бұрын
Best video ever !!!
@kingofgames420008 ай бұрын
This seems like the rambling of a mad man.
@elladanzig45142 жыл бұрын
i am so fucking confused
@elladanzig45142 жыл бұрын
this video is helpful but i am just so confused 😭😭😭😭😭
@greylithwolf2 жыл бұрын
@@elladanzig4514 It's more simple than it seems. Basically, the play is about how life is meaningless. People exist in a state of semi-permanent stagnation (ended only when we die) waiting for something that will never come. Godot represents the thing we're always waiting for, whether that be your next meal, your next vacation, the next game, your next date, or even your death. The harsh irony is that once the thing we've been waiting for arrives we simply find something new to wait for and everything we do in between is merely killing time until it arrives. The idea is that this process of waiting and waiting and figuring out ways to distract ourselves is absurd; it doesn't make any sense. The very fact of life itself is absurd, which is reflected by the absurdity of the play. Although, the play seems to come from a purely logistical point of view. Of course waiting for something that will never come is silly and the ways we distract ourselves is ultimately meaningless, but that removes feelings from the equation. There is no logic to life so we have to find meaning in the way we feel and seek the things that make us happy until the fateful day when all feeling is stripped away. Life is absurd, meaning is absurd, everything is absurd, so we just have to be happy. It's basically its own cosmic horror. Nothing we do will ever matter in the grand scheme of things, so why not just enjoy ourselves while we're here?
@itsquackergaming2724 Жыл бұрын
Why am I the only one not watching this for a class
@graham61324 жыл бұрын
A very useful video for invalids!
@kth56933 жыл бұрын
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@ognjendragosavljevic84203 жыл бұрын
10:55 brat desno ne drzi kanap alo ba zbunjujes ljude sta nije jasno
@BradBrassman2 жыл бұрын
Guddo indeed, which like your pronunciation of Van Gough as "Van Go" is wrong. American audiences are wrong. What you miss -because of your Hubris- is the fact that Godot isnt French it is an Irish word which means forever, which is how long Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot; forever, because he isnt coming.
@athifa61273 жыл бұрын
ini drama aneh bgt dah
@paultroop38502 жыл бұрын
Sorry, this fellow hasn't the foggiest idea what this play is about. It is not about the futility of life. Like the other Beckett plans-- Krapps Last Tape, Happy Days, and Endgame-- it is autobiographical. The characters and situations have meaning. The "wait" has meaning.
@studygirl21510 ай бұрын
Isnt this play mocking religion tbh???
@Heseys.115 ай бұрын
It's an absurdist play. There is no god which is why there is no greater meaning and that's what makes our life absurd. There IS no god in first place to be mocked. That's absurdism for you.
@kashikhan1545 ай бұрын
Baji theek keh Rahi hai aap
@rosha769 ай бұрын
So loud
@giiizzziiiooo4 ай бұрын
find yourself another if you don't like it
@BradBrassman2 жыл бұрын
God this bloke is irritating!
@hecoppiii Жыл бұрын
I even can't understand and have to try really hard to concentrate on what he's saying, maybe slow the video down.
@ladyprudence67 ай бұрын
Awful and simplistic analysis.
@noreenm.gulwani16383 жыл бұрын
The manner of speech of the narrator is so irritating.
@sh1vG Жыл бұрын
True
@hecoppiii Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@AzraTanveer Жыл бұрын
Exactly he should speak calmly
@jonathanmwaba9842 Жыл бұрын
Nothing sinister about his tone.Clearly,you have not followed him from inception.If it doesn’t interests you find yourself other lessons