完整版不在场的他者从存在主义角度分析《等待戈多》毕业设计.docx

1、完整版不在场的他者从存在主义角度分析等待戈多毕业设计本科学生毕业论文（设计）题目 Waiting for the Absent Other: An Existentialistic Analysis of Waiting for Godot 不在场的他者从存在主义角度分析 等待戈多 姓名李秀才 院、系外国语学院 英语系 专业英语（师范 4） 指导教师谢楠 职称（学历）助教（硕士） 2013年04月30日独创性声明本人声明所呈交的学位论文是我个人在导师指导下进行的研究工作及取得的研究成果。尽我所知，除文中已经标明引用的内容外，本论文不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本文的研究

2、做出贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到本声明的法律结果由本人承担。学位论文作者签名：年 月 日学位论文版权使用授权书本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保留、使用学位论文的规定，即：学校有权保留并向国家有关部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版，允许论文被查阅和借阅。本人授权云南师范大学可以将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检索，可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇编本学位论文。学位论文作者签名： 指导教师签名：年 月 日 年 月 日STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIPExcept where reference is made in the text

3、 of the thesis, this thesis contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or part from a thesis presented by me for another degree or diploma.No other persons work has been used without due acknowledge ment in the main text of the thesis.This thesis has not been submitted for the aw

4、ard of any other degree or diploma in my tertiary institution.SignedDatedAcknowledgementsI am deeply grateful to my supervisor Xie Nan for her patient guidance, general assistance, helpful advice and continual encouragement, all of which have been of inestimable work to the completion of my paper. W

5、ithout her helpful instruction, detailed comments, and beneficial advice, this paper would have never been finished so smoothly.My thanks also go to all the teachers who have taught me and helped me a lot during the four years of my study in Yunnan Normal University. Without their teaching, I could

6、not have learned so much.At last, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my family, who gave me great help and encouragement during my four years study and the thesis writing.AbstractSamuel Becketts masterpiece Waiting for Godot is one of famous absurd plays in the world. It is labeled as “

7、Anti-Theater”, “New Theater”, and “Theater of the Absurd”. As we can see, Waiting for Godot is a work in the name of “Theater of the Absurd” coined by Martin Esslin. Waiting for Godot which is regarded as the classic of the Theatre of the Absurd is Becketts turning point from novel writing to drama,

8、 and also a representative work of the 20th century drama from modernity to postmodernity. Based on the complicated social background and spiritual crisis in the western world, this work tries to reveal the absurd living condition, loneliness and hopelessness, desolation and meaninglessness of weste

9、rn people.Waiting for Godot aroused thousands of peoples resonance after this works first show in Paris. This work also attracts much attention of critics in the literary world. Lots of new interpretations continuously emerge with varied views in the literary world. Some critics argue that this work

10、 does not display the existentialism, and some hold it is closely related to existentialism. So this paper attempts to use the literary and criticism of existentialism to analyze the relationship between existentialism and Waiting for Godot and to discuss the meanings of waiting in Waiting for Godot

11、 and the absurdity of the play.Key words: Waiting for Godot; The absent other; Existentialism; Absurdity摘 要萨缪尔贝克特的巨作等待戈多是世界著名的荒诞派戏剧。它总是被冠名为“反戏剧”，“新戏剧”以及“荒诞派戏剧”。 正如我们所知，等待戈多是马丁艾斯林荒诞派戏剧名义下的作品。荒诞派戏剧经典之作的等待戈多被认为是贝克特从小说写作到戏剧创作的转折点，也被认为是20世纪现代主义向后现代主义过渡的代表作。在西方世界精神危机和复杂的社会环境大背景下，这部作品旨在揭露西方人民荒诞的生活状况，孤独感，绝望

12、感，分离感以及无意义的生活。等待戈多在巴黎上演处女秀过后，引起了成千上万人的共鸣。这部作品同时吸引了文学界大量学者的眼球。文学界从不同角度分析的著作源源不断，潺潺不息。许多评论员认为这部作品并没有呈现存在主义，但也有人认为它和存在主义有密不可分的关系。因此本论文将从存在主义的角度来分析等待戈多同存在主义的关系，讨论等待戈多找中等待的意蕴以及这部戏剧的荒诞性。关键词: 等待戈多；不在场的他者；存在主义；荒诞Contents1. Introduction11.1Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot.11.2Jean-Paul Sartres Existentia

13、lism.31.3The Outline of the Thesis2. Literature review32.1The Studies Aboard and at Home .4 2.2The Uniqueness of the Study.53. Theoretical Framework.63.1 The Theatre of the Absurd.63.2 Jean-Paul Stares Existentialism.74. Waiting for the Absent Other: An Existentialistic Analysis of Waiting for Godot

14、.84.1The Absurdity of Waiting for Godot.84.1.1 Plot.84.1.2Characters4.1.2The Illogical and Meaningless Dialogue.94.1.3Circulation.114.1.4No Certain Space-time Environment and Complete Structure.4.2 Waiting for the Absent Other.124.2.1The Absent Other Is Nothingness13 4.2.2 The Absent Other Is Savior

15、.144.2.3The Absent Other Is Belief4.3 An Existentialistic Analysis of Waiting for Godot.154.3.1Death.164.3.2 The Meaning of Human Existence.174.3.3The Place of God5. Conclusion.18References19 1. Introduction1.1 Samuel Becket and Waiting for Godot human nature was an Irish novelist, playwright, theat

16、re director, and poet. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his work often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor. He is considered one of the last modernists because of the influence from James Joyce. As an inspiration to many later writers, he

17、 is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd. Especially his representative work Waiting for Godot becomes the classic in the genre of Theatre of the Absurd. Beckett was warded the 1969 Nobel Prize

18、in Literature “for his writing, which in new forms for the novel and drama,in the destitution of modem man acquire its elevation” (The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969)Waiting for Godot was written in 1952, it was first published by French, and its first show was in Paris in 1953. The World War II had

19、 big influences to the play and Samuel Beckett. People around the world suffered too much from the World War II, too many people were still despair, helpless, panic, misgiving. Samuel Beckett witnessed the cruelness and inhumanity of the World War II and the spirit crisis of western people. Waiting

20、for Godot has become a modern classic because it gives us a human situation expressed with an emotional force. The play has a far-reaching influence. As we have seen, Becketts dramatic and verbal art embodies vivid images of action and a profound vision of human existence.Wherever we read Waiting fo

21、r Godot, we can see images of spiritual loss, and of human sufferings. A profound sense of loss does pervade all this play. The play speaks to us of the real world, of human condition. 1.2 Jean-Paul Sartres Existentialism Here Existentialism will be a great help to analyze my thesis.There has never

22、been general agreement on the definition of Existentialism. It is generally believed that the first prominent existentialist philosopher to adopt the term was Jean-Paul Sartre who did most to bring existentialism into the arts and into search of for an authentic way of life on the part of many disaf

23、fected youth of Europe and America.1.3 The Outline of the ThesisWhile doing my argument, the first thing Im going to do is to introduce studies on Waiting for Godot from abroad and China. In this part, we can have a general knowledge of judgments on Waiting for Godot and understand the significance

24、of Waiting for Godot in literature field and other fields. Then following part is to present theoretical framework which will help me to analyze my argument. This thesis will touch Existentialism and The Theatre of the Absurd. Through part of Sartres Existentialism and Esslins The Theatre of the Abs

25、urd, this thesis will concentrate on the following topic:The absurdity of Waiting for Godot; The meaning of the Absent Other; The reflection of Existentialism in Waiting for Godot. Then finally this thesis will give a conclusion.2. Literature Review The critical response to the works of Samuel Becke

26、tt has been overwhelming, especially after the successful first show of Waiting for Godot in Paris in 1953. And the play made Beckett a household word. And then numerous books and thousands of articles have been published on Beckett, primarily in Europe, the United States, and Canada. Since he wrote

27、 most of his works in French, and then translated them himself into English. And the diversity of the interpretations to Becketts woks has been varied: political, psychological, philosophical, historical, thematic, postmodernism, Christian, autobiographical, homoerotic, and so on.2.1 Studies Abroad

28、and at HomeThe first period is from 1960s to 1970s. During this period, studies mainly focus on form and content, the influence of literary, philosophical and historical ideas. And Martin Esslin wrote The Theatre of the Absurd, it was the most frequently cited resources for the research of Waiting f

29、or Godot and other famous absurd plays. Esslin really thought highly of Waiting for Godot and gave special appraisements on it. In the Shape of Chaos: An Interpretation of the Art of Samuel Beckett, David Hesla examines Samuel Becketts novels and plays from the perception of the historical ideas. He

30、 shows how Samuel Beckett was influenced by the theories of the pre-Socratics, the rationalists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Hegel, Kierkegard, Sartre, and Husserl. Any drama cant live without the stage, so Ruby Cohns Samuel Beckett: the Comic Gamut concerned Waiting for Godots stage performance. He used Bergsons catalog of comic techniques as a starting point for her study of the comic elements in Beckets prose and drama.The second period is in the early 19