Video based activity

Instruction:

Watch the video of Mr. Bean and write a dialogue on it. You are free to apply your imagination for writing the dialogue. You have to identify the situation in your mind.

“Waiting for Godot is not about Godot or even about waiting. It is waiting”. - Discuss.

– Introduction:

Samuel Beckett:

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, poet and literary translator. He wrote in both English and French. Beckett’s work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence. He is considered one of the last modernist writers and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’.

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Noble Prize in Literature,

"For his writing, which in new forms

for the novel and drama- in the

destination of modern man

acquires its elevation?"

‘The qualities of a great poet'

Natural , Inborn , Instict :-

Ben Jonson believed that poets are endowed with natural talents. The poet should be divinly inspired. That is why the poet is rare. They are not made but they are born. They posseses certain inherent qualities. Thus, the poet must have the gift of that perfection of nature.

Constant exercise and practice :-

Practice and constant exercise are neccesary to perfect inborn gifts. Natural genious is not enough for poetry after all it is a painful toil. The poet must have study and practice. His opinion runs with Dante and not with Wordsworth. Since Wordsworth believed that ‘ poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling ‘ whereas Dante believed that ‘it is an elaborate and painful toil’