Samuel Beckett, Dualism, and Surrealism in Waiting for Godot
Beckett leaving the Royal Court Theatre. in London, April. 1976. Photograph by Jane Bown.
Theme: Dualism
Waiting for Godot is full of Dualism. Vladimir and Estragon, The Boy and his brother, Pozzo and Lucky, Godot coming or not coming, the two thieves, Cain and Abel, Israel and Jordan, France and Spain, Act I and Act II; these structures function in the play to signify or point to the Dualistic nature in man. What I attempted to accomplish in the faux blog posts is to, in a way, recreate the dueling nature of Vladimir and Estragon's back and forth banter. It's not easy to delve into two different chasms of your own psyche, but I wanted to try and practice Beckett's tennis-like dialogue that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Surrealism and Avant-Garde Theatre
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement that broke the norms and oppressions of tradition and focused on the freedoms of the individual; furthermore, it explored the deepest psychological dreams, desires, and nightmares of the individual. Samuel Beckett was one of the forerunners of Avant-Garde, Surrealist, Absurdist Theatre. I wanted to explore the absolute chaos of stream of consciousness style writing through my Lucky blog posts. His blog posts were particularly difficult because it's not easy to - in a sense - vomit words that have little to no coherence. Below is Lucky's Speech because I'm sure everyone will want to take a gander at the genius among the madness.
Theme: Dualism
Waiting for Godot is full of Dualism. Vladimir and Estragon, The Boy and his brother, Pozzo and Lucky, Godot coming or not coming, the two thieves, Cain and Abel, Israel and Jordan, France and Spain, Act I and Act II; these structures function in the play to signify or point to the Dualistic nature in man. What I attempted to accomplish in the faux blog posts is to, in a way, recreate the dueling nature of Vladimir and Estragon's back and forth banter. It's not easy to delve into two different chasms of your own psyche, but I wanted to try and practice Beckett's tennis-like dialogue that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Surrealism and Avant-Garde Theatre
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement that broke the norms and oppressions of tradition and focused on the freedoms of the individual; furthermore, it explored the deepest psychological dreams, desires, and nightmares of the individual. Samuel Beckett was one of the forerunners of Avant-Garde, Surrealist, Absurdist Theatre. I wanted to explore the absolute chaos of stream of consciousness style writing through my Lucky blog posts. His blog posts were particularly difficult because it's not easy to - in a sense - vomit words that have little to no coherence. Below is Lucky's Speech because I'm sure everyone will want to take a gander at the genius among the madness.
Crossroads
I got the idea for a blog in which Vladimir and Estragon are trapped in Cyberspace because I believe that this is an even more modern representation of spaces that are between worlds. Cyberspace is this other dimension, one that we do not see, but we all dwell in it nonetheless. Our identities are trapped in the sphere of information like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such sites. I wanted to explore how Vladimir and Estragon would cope being trapped in a new, binary Purgatory.
I got the idea for a blog in which Vladimir and Estragon are trapped in Cyberspace because I believe that this is an even more modern representation of spaces that are between worlds. Cyberspace is this other dimension, one that we do not see, but we all dwell in it nonetheless. Our identities are trapped in the sphere of information like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such sites. I wanted to explore how Vladimir and Estragon would cope being trapped in a new, binary Purgatory.