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LUED LANGUAGE AND SILENCE AESTHETICS ...................................................................................28PART FOUR THE “INDETERMINACY” IN WAITING FOR GODOT...........................................................33 INDETERMINACY OF THE CHARACTERS......................................................................................................33 INDETERMINACY OF THE THEME ................................................................................................................38 INDETERMINACY OF THE PLOT ...................................................................................................................40Times New Roman,三號,粗體,居中Times New Roman 五號, 倍行距VPART FIVE WAITING FOR GODOT: JUXTAPOSITION OF COMEDY AND TRAGEDY .........................44CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................................50WORKS CITED ..................................................................................................................................................53 河南師范大學(xué)本科畢業(yè)論文 1IntroductionSamuel Barclay Beckett (19061989), an Irish novelist and playwright, is admittedly regarded as one of the greatest masters in the literary world of 20th century. In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by right of his eminent play, Waiting for Godot, which has influenced later generations of contemporary playwrights throughout the world. Actually Beckett considered himself a much better novelist and he thought of his plays as diversions undertaken at times when work on his fiction had brought him to a creative impasse, but since Waiting for Godot was first performed in Paris on 5 January 1953, the greater part of his literary career has resulted in his special form of writing for the theatre.The play contains two acts in which two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot who is supposed to keep an appointment with them. They are joined by a man and his servant, Pozzo and Lucky, who stay with them briefly, then continue on their unspecified way. A boy es at the end of the first act to tell Vladimir and Estragon that Mr. Godot will not e that day, but most surely the next. A tree which has been bare of leaves is the only setting, and a moon rises to signify that day has ended and night has e as the first act ends. In the second act, the tree miraculously sprouts a few leaves but nothing else has changed for Vladimir and Estragon. Pozzo and Lucky return and then leave。 the boy es again and repeats the same information. Vladimir and Estragon are disappointed and consider mitting suici