The Utilization of Language in Samuel Becket’s Play “Waiting for Godot”

Abstract

This paper focuses on the use of language in “Waiting for Godot” by the great Irish playwright Samuel Becket. The play displays existence of the modernist bourgeois ideology. It also helps to show how the writer keeps silent at certain stages in an attempt to convey the fact in his personal way.

The study aims to show the significance of language in the current play. Then how the playwright achieves his goal in creating such kind of dialogues to give us the picture of absurd life at that time. The writer wants to say that language sometimes doesn’t able to express our sorrows and anguish. The characters of the play stand without using language but the audience understand their intention. The writer uses silence and boasts to tell the truth. It is hoped that this play gives us a lesson that some situations in life can be understood without using language.