WAITING FOR GODOT AS A PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THE SECULARIZATION OF THE FICTIONAL SPACE
WAITING FOR GODOT AS A PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THE SECULARIZATION OF THE FICTIONAL SPACE

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to offer a panoramic view of the loss of spiritual identity in the play work of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I am interested in discussing the way in which the secularization of the literary space is represented in the empirical world, as it is imagined in the fictional space of that play. I am equally interested in observing the manner in which this writer manages to express the idea of a non-religious space in literature. Moreover, I will consider talking about revolt as a symbol of the desire to overcome a rigid social order that hinders human freedom and its innate desire for alternative realities, whether fictional or transcendental. In order to offer a consistent critical view of the concept aforementioned, I will consider using the technique of close reading the text of the play, focusing on the way in which language is used to convey the idea of the absurd. The creative use of language and the exploitation of absurd and contradictory situations, in general, will be regarded as a means to make visible the new and revolutionary way in which theatre came to be understood by this playwright.

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