Fragmentation In Waiting For Godot

Samuel Beckett, the 1969 Nobel laureate in literature, became famous and well-known more because of his Waiting for Godot than any of his other works. The play took the world by storm as Beckett put his vision of the human condition after WWII on stage. Among many other themes, the theme of fragmentation is expressed throughout the play via many aspects, fragmented plot, fragmented character, fragmented language and fragmented setting and song.The Introduction gives a brief view on Waiting for Godot and its significance in the 20th century world drama history.Chapter One talks about the background of Beckett, the author; the play, and some other literary works that Beckett wrote to express the idea of fragmentation and his other ideas. Two aspects of reason accounted for the success of Beckett: one is the era, and the other is Beckett's own genius.Chapter Two concentrates on the fragmented plot of Waiting for Godot, and how Beckett used fragmented plot to embody the theme of fragmentation. Beckett did not intend to tell a story but to give the readers and spectators a static plot which has no beginning, no suspense, and no end at all.Chapter Three talks about the characters in the play that Beckett presented before us. There is no description of the characters'past, and each one of the partners has an incomplete character which is complementary with that of his partner. The cryptic Godot never appears in the whole play.