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Part one : Act I (1)
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett
Two shabby men who seem to be old friends meet on the side of a country road near a leafless tree. The first, Estragon, has been beaten up, and the second, Vladimir, suffers from groin pain and frequent urination.
List of the Main characters in "Waiting for Godot"
Estragon:
Estragon One of the two main characters of the play, along with Vladimir, Estragon is rather helpless on his own. In the beginning of the play, he struggles just to take off his boots, for example.
Waiting For Godot.
INTRODUCTION
Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, in County Dublin, Ireland. As a youth,Beckett experienced severe bouts of depression that kept him bedridden; he reflected, "I had little talent for happiness," an observation that would later provide an undercurrent in much of his writing.
CHAPTER 1
After Mr. Jones, the drunken owner of Manor Farm, has staggered up to bed, Old Major, the aged and respected prize boar, leads a meeting attended by all the animals on the Farm.
Plot Summary
Just before his death, Old Major, the prize boar of Manor Farm, tells the other animals of his dream of a new life for them and encourages rebellion against the cruel drunkard, Farmer Jones.
Introduction to Animal Farm
In 1947 George Orwell said, “Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.” He also stated, “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. ... Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it ... it is invariably where I lack a political purpose that I wrote lifeless book...”
