(Astro 114) The spectator shares this experience of waiting for someone who might not come with the characters which made it possible for Beckett to give his audience an understanding of the intentions of the absurdist drama.
Samuel Becket's Waiting for Godot and the Theater of the Absurd: "Nothing is certain - What makes Samuel Beckett's absurdist play to one of the most a Waiting for Godot is not only completely detached from the conventions of the classic drama, namely the unity of time, place and action, this unity is instead substituted by illogical actions, absurd scenarios and dialogues that appear to be linked randomly. A short summary of Waiting for Godot is followed by the analysis of the play, concentrating on the connection of form and content especially by discussing characters and their actions, the time and place and the d. This paper intends to illustrate that Waiting for Godot - being an absurdist drama - is isolated from the classic drama and its conventions and deals with the structural elements Beckett used to convey the absurdity and illogicality that the play is based on. Originally written in French, Beckett's play was first performed in the Théâtre de Babylon in Paris in 1953 (cf.