Waiting for Godot: Proven as a Tragic-Comedy

Is the label tragic-comedy truly suitable for the drama hold for Godot? A tragic-comedy by definition, is a work which intertwines elements both tragic and comic in nature. This characterization undersurface be questioned as to its legitimacy in its application to waiting for Godot. However, such skepticism of the classification forget soon be expunged. Necessarily, examples of tragic and comic techniques, as comfortably as makeup, will be identify and confirmed as content within the story. Body A Tragic-comedy is a play which claims a mend fit for tragedy but which ends happily like a comedy.The action is serious in theme and subject matter and tone also some fourth dimensions, but it seems to be a tragic catastrophe until an unexpected turn in events brings out the happy ending. The characters of a tragic-comedy are noble but they are affect in improbabilities. In such a play tragic and comic elements are mixed together. Fletcher, in his Preface to the Faithful Shepherdess, defines a tragic-comedy as A tragic-comedy is not so called in respect to enjoyment and killing, but in respect it wants death which is enough to make it no tragedy. Shakespeares Cymbeline and The Winters Tale may also be categorized as tragic-comedy. Time is clearly presented as a tragedy and creates many hardships in Waiting for Godot. Waiting is generally perceived negatively and is the central concentre of the story. The deuce main characters tarragon and Vladimir, are forced to waste away their days while awaiting the stretch of a man who never comes. tarragon and Vladimir have nothing to do in the meantime and in result time becomes a dreaded inevitability that they must endure. Because they extensively repeat the same actions, time is cyclical. Each character seems to have a faulty memory, which further proves problematic.For example, this is seen in a conversation in the midst of Vladimir and Estragon Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in an y case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly. . Time loses importee and value when the actions of one day are without purpose or certainty on the next. Tragically, Estragon is on a regular basis beaten, he admits Beat me? Certainly they beat me. . And Vladimir suffers from kidney deflects. Estragons feet and Vladimirs kidneys are also interpreted to be granted. They both resent that they should be asked whether it still hurts. It is implied that it hurts all the time.When Vladimir asks Estragon whether his boots are hurting him, he responds Hurts He wants to know if it hurts . Estragon then asks Vladimir of his kidney trouble and comically Vladimir responds Hurts He wants to know if it hurts . In actuality his trouble is so great that it does not even permit him to laugh. The comedy in Waiting for Godot quickly turns into tragedy at the thought of the helplessness Estragon and Vladimir now face. The two are waiting for someone who never arrives. In order to pass time they participate in irrelevant, meaningless activity.Their lives are impossible to comptroller and are without pleasure and their lifestyles are extremely tragic as it is. The source is the situation of pointless waiting of Estragon and Vladimir. They do not know who Godot is and even do not know what will pass on if they stop waiting. Lack of essential knowledge makes them totally impotent and powerless. The total atmosphere of the play is very(prenominal) bleak to dark-comedy. For example, Vladimir is determined not to hear Estragons nightmare. However, Estragon still pleads with him in inconstant to hear him, saying that there is nobody else to whom he may communicate his private nightmares.The situation of successful is comically pathetic, especially in view of his glorious past, as Pozzo describes it. Lucky is apparently frustrated and preoccupy with life and the struggles himself and people as a whole must endure and begins to rant the flames, the tears the stones so blue so calm unluc kily alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in pique of the tennis, the labors abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard tennis the stones so calm Cunard unfinished A comic moment involves Estragon putting off-key and on his boots, as well as Vladimirs game with his hat which appears as if he was performing at a circus. He also suffers from a prostrate problem and walks with stiff and short strides. The two each seem to engage often in unsure banter and easily influenced decisions, for example Estragon Lets go. Vladimir We cannot. Estragon Why not? Vladimir We are waiting for Godot. (They do not move. ) Estragon and Vladimir put on and take off each others hat as well as that of Lucky again and again.It shows that in the world of tramps, there is no place of significant actions. The approximately fa rcical situation in the play is the one where the tramps are testing the strength of the cord with which they lack to hang themselves and the cord breaks under the strain. Waiting for Godot consists of two men unable to act, move, or think in any significant way while they kill time waiting for a mysterious man, Godot. The characters give off to realize that this very act of waiting is a choice instead, they view it as a authorisation part of their daily routine.This habit of uncertainty extends even to the most extreme of decisions, for example Vladimir Well hang ourselves tomorrowunless Godot comes. Estragon And if he comes? Vladimir Then well be saved. Their inability to make conscious decisions can be viewed as tragically unfortunate, while at the same time it can also create humor. Conclusion In conclusion, multiple comic and tragic schemes were identified, as well as the theme of the drama confirming Waiting for Godot as a tragic-comedy.Certain events and dialogue betwee n characters throughout the story promoted tragic and comic scenarios successfully and proved to be legitimate examples. While Waiting for Godot contains tragedy and comedy, is this the expectation for all dramas to qualify as a tragic-comedy? Finally, all and every story should be precisely and attentively observed before generalizing it within a label, to prevent pre-determined opinions and encourage personal perspective.