Suffering is the true badge of honour for a Christian. And we all know that Jesus Christ was a carpenter by profession and helped his father Joseph before he had undertaken his missionary work.Īs a matter of fact, Beckett is never tired of referring to Christ and the salvation of the suffering and penitent man. In his novel Molloy, Beckett says: “ It was a cargo of nails and timber, on its way to some carpenter I suppose”. Not Waiting for Godot alone, the other plays are also imbued with deep religious fervour. This is a significant statement and may be regarded as a clue to the play. Do not presume: one of the thieves was damned”. Augustine: “Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved. When Beckett was once asked to comment on the play Waiting for Godot, he quoted from St. Waiting for Godot, an absurd drama as it is, has an unmistakably religious element. They present a hostile universe where man withers like atomic dust. The playwrights normally emphasize irony and negation, neurosis and despair, a ritual orgy of jabbering, the infinity of nihilism. In an Absurd play the idea of God and religion is conspicuous by its absence.
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