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Essay Archive - Comparing "Waiting for Godot" To "Hollow Men"
Comparing "Waiting for Godot" To "Hollow Men"
Life is occupied by waiting. In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becket
presents the suffering of the human condition. Godot is about two beings
who talk about nothing, experience the drudgery of life, complain that they
do not do anything, meet a few people, think about hanging themselves, and
then do it all over again. The existentialist style by Godot is comparable
to T.S. Eliot's works. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Hollow
Men are about the tormenting cycle of life and death. The connection among
these three works is that people want to and should do so mu....
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