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An Insight into Human Sufferings: On Beckett's Waiting for Godot/INTERPRETATION DES SOUFFRANCES HUMAINES : DANS EN ATTENTE DE GODOT DE BECKETT

2007· article· fr· W327953158 on OpenAlex
Yue-hua Guo

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2007
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSamuel Beckett and Modernism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesTragedy (event)Meaning (existential)PhilosophyInterpretation (philosophy)ArtLiteratureEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract: This paper is focused on sufferings brought about to two tramps by their aimless waiting for Godot, an unknown person who promises to come but fails to show up again and again. By analysis of such elements as physical and mental pain, meaninglessness of waiting, flow of time, human relations, life and death that two tramps experience in their waiting that reflect human pain in paper, author tries to reveal fact that existence seems to be something imposed upon us by an unknown force and we suffer as a result of it as there seems no apparent meaning. Thus, conclusion is reached that, man's tragedy comes from a double source-an internal one arising from his finite nature and an external one in which that nature collides with world. Key Words: human condition human suffering tragic fate meaninglessness Resume: L'article present se concentre sur les souffrances de deux clochards entrainees par leur attente sans but de Godot, un inconnu qui, promettant de venir, n'apparait pas toujours. A travers l'analyse des elements, tels que les douleurs physique et mentale, l'attente insignifiante, l'ecoulement du temps, les relations humaines, la vie et la mort que les deux chochards connaissent durant leur attente, qui refletent les souffrances humaines, l'auteur tente de reveler le fait que l'existence semble quelque chose imposee par une force inconnue et que nous en souffrons dans la mesure ou il n'y a aucun sens apparent. Ainsi, on tire la conclusion : la tragedie de l'homme provient de deux sources - l'une, interne, nait de sa nature limitee et l'autre, externe, emane de la collision entre sa nature et le monde. Mots-Cles: conditions humaines, souffrances humaines, destin tragique, insignifiance 1. INTRODUCTION Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot is primarily a play about human suffering involved in human existence. In this outstanding play of absurdity, two tamps Estragon and Vladimir are trapped in their commitment of waiting for a certain Mr. Godot, a person they believe will alleviate their boredom and save them from chaos of life and restore order of their social status. As Beckett often focused on idea of the suffering of being, he portrays human condition as a period of suffering which is an inevitable part of human existence. Human condition is characteristic of suffering from such misfortunes as meaningless waiting, disillusionment of hope, abnormal relationship between themselves and with others, meaninglessness and helplessness of their lives, their tragic fate before God, and their fear of death. It seems that Beckett tries to reveal all evils, sins, unfairness, and disasters that exist and are happening all time in this world and that human beings would not be able to avoid encountering them during their life time, from beginning to end. 2. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PAIN As audience can see, everybody in play is suffering from some kind of pain that life has brought them, both physically and mentally. At very beginning of play, one of tramps, Estragon, is trying hard to take off his boot, which is pinching him and is obviously causing great pain to him, as he is panting and exhausted with such an effort. Though it seems that boot act is nothing so important as compared with their endless waiting act, it is as a matter of fact a skillful way of Beckett's play to present to audience right from beginning with such implication that human beings are born to suffer from all kinds of miseries, and this suffering is accompanying us through every stage of our life until day we die. As to Vladimir, another tramps, he enters advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart (Beckett, 1965, p. 1), obviously unable to walk normally as he must also be suffering from some kind of pain that is unknown to audience. As Birkett suggests, Estangon's sore feet and Valdimir's bladder problems between them shape this opening visual image of action and movement which is difficult and painful and yet, with unwitting heroism, persevered with. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.573
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0070.004
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it