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This 5 page paper compares the idea of isolation and loneliness in Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesoc's works: Waiting for Godot, and The Bald Soprano. Examples given from both texts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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doubt that most of the human race spends their time trying to uphold some idea of themselves or who they should be. In this pursuit, then, mankind only serves to
sever any deeply meaningful relationships with others. Two playwrights, Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett, observed and wrote about this isolation and loneliness as it affected their middle class characters in
their plays, The Bald Soprano, and Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot starts out with two tramps who are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of
Godot. The extent of their vigil can be summarized by the fact that they talk, argue, fight, make up, contemplate suicide, fail to sleep, and eat poorly.
Two other characters appear, a master and a slave, who perform a grotesque scene in the middle of the play. A young boy arrives to
say that Godot will not come today, but that he will come tomorrow. The play is a development of the title, Waiting for Godot. But Godot does not come and
the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves, the only symbol of a possible order in a
thoroughly alienated world(Beckett). Ionescos The Bald Soprano throws two families together in the course of their work week to illustrate the hypocrisy which is contrived at the expense of others,
using language and absurdity as a means of passing the time, much as the two men in Godot. "MR. MARTIN: You know, even though Im not a maid, I
also read poems before the mirror. MRS. MARTIN: This morning when you looked at yourself in the mirror you didnt see yourself.
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