![]() ![]() Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco are the most important names of absurd theater. After the outbreak of the Second World War, different reflections in all areas of art have emerged in the field of theater and absurd theater has emerged. Modern world literature puts up many sorrowful and melancholic works by the influences of horrifying actions of wars. New trends showed up in the literature and arts in that period. If God exists, why people suffer? Why man was created by God? Or Was it not the God who created us? Who are we indeed? These kinds of questions changed people’s points of view. People started to question both the existence of God and the existence of mankind. People began to lose faith in God and question this atrocity. In the post-war period, emotions such as pessimism, despair, and helplessness were experienced intensively. He was influenced by the post-war period like thousands of people. So based on this, we can say that Samuel Beckett saw two World Wars as well. ![]() ![]() He was provided with an excellent education, graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, with a major emphasis in French and Italian. Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1906. To analyze the play we have to consider about author’s life and what kind of effects of his life exist in the play. This paper aims to reflect on themes of ”Waiting for Godot” and analyzing the characters of the play. ![]()
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