Abstract: A Literary Analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a Modern Play
Literature often reflects history; many authors incorporate common historical conflicts to create the main struggle in their work of fiction. The same is true for Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. According to James Martin Harding, Beckett’s play identifies the historical ‘dialectic’, which in this case means a conflict between two opposing ideas, of “lordship and ...