사무엘 베케트의 『고도를 기다리며』에 나타난 언어와 시공간의 고찰

The reality that Samuel Beckett saw was a world filled with illogical and irrational things. Beckett expressed the absurd world through deconstruction of existing language, time and space. Non-normative language use, such as illogical conversations, profanity and silence, is unfamiliar to the audience. The discontinuance of human relations due to conversations that is only sound and long silence is confined to a stopped time marked by wait and oblivion. The paused time makes the boundary of space unclear, as making the past, present, and future impossible to be aware. It suggests that hope cannot exist because the fragmentary flow of time and the ambiguous space between reality and fantasy make it impossible to know any information about the coming savior. Beckett does not tell any story directly through this work. However, as a tool for reproducing the purpose he has wanted to convey, he rearranged language, time, and space to contemplate what they symbolize.