Waiting for Godot has been interpreted in different ways by researchers and critics. The existential crisis destroyed the belief system of the greater part of society. The characters of this play represent the horrors and meaninglessness that the people felt after the second world war. The wait seems pointless because the characters do not know what they are waiting for. Beckett’s characters have no purpose in their life, and they wait for a significant change or revival. The playwright shows that human beings keep on waiting for a miracle in their life without any concrete reason behind their waiting. This work shows the angst, agony and helplessness of human beings of the post-modern era. The intricate layers of this play have given opportunities for questioning. Samuel Becketts play Waiting for Godot belongs to the “Theatre of the Absurd” and presents a complex view of life.
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Thomas' arrival in India, this story is about the ebbs and flows of lives across three generations from 1900 to the late-1970s. Rao's immortal opening line for his Kanthapura fits Verghese's Covenant too: "There is no village in India, however mean, that has not a rich sthalapurana, or legendary history, of its own." And, like Rao's story, Verghese's also opens with a storytelling grandmother.ĭrawing on ancient Malayali Christian communal histories that reach back to 52 A.D. Like the unforgettable rural South Indian worlds those authors bestowed upon us with places like Kanthapura, Kedaram, Khasak, and Malgudi, respectively, Verghese has given us Parambil, a water-filled, near-mythical dreamscape in Kerala. We would also do well to consider Covenant as part of the Indian novel in English lineage that includes literary greats like Raja Rao, K Nagarajan, O V Vijayan, and R K Narayan. Indeed, the literary feats in The Covenant of Water deserve to be lauded as much as those of such canonical authors. There will also be continued invocations of the likes of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to describe Verghese's ambitious literary scope and realism. Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's multigenerational South Indian novel in the coming months and years.Īs we've seen with Verghese's earlier fiction, there will be frequent references to that other celebrated doctor-writer, Anton Chekhov. Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war. Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise-a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again-this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La. Grace’s joy at her wedding to Rainier and her disenchantment with her cloistered palace life are recounted, the depth of Grace’s hurt caused by her husband’s autocratic treatment of her revealed. 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Self-injury (in the context of a curse that requires regular physical sacrifices)Ī lush gothic fantasy about monsters and magic, set on the banks of a cursed lake.Descriptions of drowning and deep water.Discussions of death and grief (no on-page deaths).Gore and blood (including description of wounds).
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