خلاصة:
This study addresses Samuel Beckett’s most celebrated play, Waiting for Godot, in an effort to analyze its characters from a novel perspective. Since Greek mythology has been undisputedly influential on Western culture and literature, the researcher attempts to investigate a connection between Greek mythology and the play. This study aims to reveal that even after more than fifty seven years of writing criticisms, analyses, interpretations, and reviews on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot there are still some new points in this masterpiece that have not been found. Godot can be interpreted as Zeus, Pozzo as the disguised Zeus, Lucky and the Boy as Atlas and Hermes, and finally Vladimir and Estragon as the human beings living in the last years of the Golden Age. Although Beckett has not directly pronounced to be influenced by Greek Mythology, traces of mythological characters, as the researcher examines, are seen in Waiting for Godot.
ملخص الجهاز:
Godot can be interpreted as Zeus, Pozzo as the disguised Zeus, Lucky and the Boy as Atlas and Hermes, and finally Vladimir and Estragon as the human beings living in the last years of the Golden Age. Although Beckett has not directly pronounced to be influenced by Greek Mythology, traces of mythological characters, as the researcher examines, are seen in Waiting for Godot .
Keywords: Greek Mythology, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Hubris, Golden Age, Apollonian and Dionysian 1.
This study tries to investigate a connection between Greek mythology and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot by comparing Greek deities with the characters of the play.
The Boy's entrance terminates the Acts but it also has a reviving function in the play; Beckett gives the dead landscape some life by sending Pozzo and Lucky along with "the leaves that appear overnight on the once-dead tree, by providing the agonized Estragon with new boots that fit better, a minor miracle in a world of decay and loss, and above all by sending the messenger boy in with Godot’s message of promised future arrival" (Burkman 2008, p.
He, actually, connects two worlds; Godot’s place and the deserted country road upon which Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot.
In a same way, the Boy is the only character who can move between Godot’s unknown place and the deserted country road upon which Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot and he actually connects these two opposite worlds.