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1、AbsurdisminWaitingforGodotWenNiSubmittedinpartialfulfillmentoftherequirementsforthedegreeofBachelorofArtsFacultyofEnglishLanguageandCultureGuangdongUniversityofForeignStudies(May2014)AbstractThispaperexplorestheuseoflanguageinWaitingforGodotsoastoseeSamuelBeckett’sideaofabsurdism.Thel
2、anguageanalysisoftheplayfocusesontwomajoraspects:thesentencesandthewords.Also,informationoftheplayandabsurdismwillbeintroducedasthebackgroundknowledge.Thispaperisdividedintothreeparts.PartIintroducesthebasicinformationandthehistoricalbackgroundofSamuelBeckettand WaitingforGodot.PartII
3、analyzesthelanguageofthisplayindetails,andexplainshowtheyembodyabsurdism.Thispartwillbedividedintothreeparts,includingthesentences,wordsandsymbolisminWaitingforGodot.Morespecifically,thispartanalyzesthesentencesgrammar,coherencebetweensentences,repetition,descriptionofsceneandsymbolis
4、mintheplay.PartIIIisaconclusionofthispaper.ThispartrelatestheabsurdisminWaitingforGodottoitshistoricalbackground.Keywords:SamuelBeckett,WaitingforGodot,absurdism,languageThesisstatementWaitingforGodot,whichiswritteninanabsurdtechnique,exposesthechaosofthesocietyandthenothingnessofpeop
5、le’sspirituallifeafterwar,andwecanlearnhowSamuelBeckettusestheabsurdtechniquethroughthelanguageuseofWaitingforGodot,includingthesentencesgrammar,coherencebetweenthesentences,andthewordingdetails.Outline1.Introduction1.1 SamuelBeckettand WaitingforGodot1.2 Background oftheplay1.3Mythes
6、isstatement2.Analysisofabsurdismin WaitingforGodot2.1Introductionofabsurdism 2.2 Sentences2.2.1Sentencesgrammar2.2.2 Sentencescoherence2.3Words2.3.1Repetition 2.3.2 Descriptionofscene2.4Symbolism3. Conclusion1.Introduction1.1 SamuelBeckettand WaitingforGodotTheFrenchwriterSamuelBecke
7、tt(1906~1989)isanovelist,playwright,andpoetinthe20thcentury.BurtonFeldman’sbookTheNobelPrizerecordsthatSamuelBecketthaswinthe1969 NobelPrizeinLiteratureandhewrites“innewformsforthenovelanddrama”(Feldman56).Beckettisarepresentativeofthewritinggrouphebelongsto,whichisnamedabsurdist.Amon
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