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How Technological Advances vs Human Values in the Play? (Waiting for Godot)

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The document discusses how technological advances occur rapidly while human values change slowly. It uses the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett to illustrate how the main characters wait passively for their lives to happen, rather than taking action. While technology has evolved from the phonograph to the iPod and typewriter to laptop, human values around issues like discrimination remain. The conclusion argues that human values need to advance to keep up with technological progress.

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How Technological Advances VS Human Values in the Play? Waiting For Gogot Paper:- 9 The Modernist Literature Roll No:- 26 M.A. Part ii Sem iii Year:- 2013-15 Submitted to:- Smt. S.B.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University. Prepared by: Sejal Chauhan Date: 1/10/2014
Technologica l advances occur all around. While human values changes little and at a much slower pace.
Commercially bottled water stands as just one of a sundry of items that human technology has conjured up over the years. It seems as though the average person can not go through a day without seeing a symbol of this phenomenon, whether it is a vending machine, an empty contains lying in the gutter or a person clutching a plastic bottle in their hand.
Present technological advances Cellular phone Can you here me now? It is almost a gurantee that during the course of a class period, a ringtone or the buzzing of the vibrating mode will shake the air. Human nature exists right along side its technology.
Kurt Vonnegut and Samuel Beckett use their writings to illustrate what needs to be a part of human existence besides human values and technology. Example Samuel Beckett spent two acts Slaughterho A couple of days in the lives of Vladimir aaaa use and Five Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Setting A cuontry road, A tree, Events in the play could happen in any century. Anywhere there is a country road and a tree. Vladimir and Estragon occupy space along a roadside talking about and Waiting for life to happen.
How Technological Advances vs Human Values in the Play? (Waiting for Godot)
They discuss hanging themselves, but put it off and never get around to it. Lake of action is at the end of each ac act when one of them asks, Well? Shall we go? And other responds, Lets hang ourselves immediatel y! Yes, lets go. and neither move.
Beckett created a couple of spectators who did things to pass the time. They anticipate the coming of a man who never shows up. Godot will never come today, but he will tomorrow. The two travelers, Pozzo and Lucky, do not recognize Vladimir and Estragon the second time around Vladimir and Estragon are nobodies who do not impact anyone elses lives but their own. Becketts piece demonstrates what peoples lives would be like if they existed but did little of anything else.
The main characters wait for their ship to come in which they should really be paving their own way. Fictional setting , should construct their own meaning and apply it to their lives instead of waiting for live to happen.
The world of today can be likened to The Beatles song Revolution 9. Verbal and musical sound clips coming forth in stereo, the one staple of the song is the spoken phrase, Number nine. All of those sound clips can be compared to the advancing technology that encompasses civilization, and the repeating phrase can be looked at as human values. The surrounding noise goes by and changes while that phrase does not.
Civilization has witnessed the evolution of the phonograph to the, iPod , the typewriter to the laptop, working hours in the kitchen to the introduction of t.v. dinners. With all of those developments, humans still have to confront discrimination of all kinds, and values hold strong.
Conclusion:- Present human values need an update because they are holding back those who recognize the need for change. Technology will keep progressing. Now, if only human values could catch up.
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How Technological Advances vs Human Values in the Play? (Waiting for Godot)

  • 1. How Technological Advances VS Human Values in the Play? Waiting For Gogot Paper:- 9 The Modernist Literature Roll No:- 26 M.A. Part ii Sem iii Year:- 2013-15 Submitted to:- Smt. S.B.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University. Prepared by: Sejal Chauhan Date: 1/10/2014
  • 2. Technologica l advances occur all around. While human values changes little and at a much slower pace.
  • 3. Commercially bottled water stands as just one of a sundry of items that human technology has conjured up over the years. It seems as though the average person can not go through a day without seeing a symbol of this phenomenon, whether it is a vending machine, an empty contains lying in the gutter or a person clutching a plastic bottle in their hand.
  • 4. Present technological advances Cellular phone Can you here me now? It is almost a gurantee that during the course of a class period, a ringtone or the buzzing of the vibrating mode will shake the air. Human nature exists right along side its technology.
  • 5. Kurt Vonnegut and Samuel Beckett use their writings to illustrate what needs to be a part of human existence besides human values and technology. Example Samuel Beckett spent two acts Slaughterho A couple of days in the lives of Vladimir aaaa use and Five Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Setting A cuontry road, A tree, Events in the play could happen in any century. Anywhere there is a country road and a tree. Vladimir and Estragon occupy space along a roadside talking about and Waiting for life to happen.
  • 7. They discuss hanging themselves, but put it off and never get around to it. Lake of action is at the end of each ac act when one of them asks, Well? Shall we go? And other responds, Lets hang ourselves immediatel y! Yes, lets go. and neither move.
  • 8. Beckett created a couple of spectators who did things to pass the time. They anticipate the coming of a man who never shows up. Godot will never come today, but he will tomorrow. The two travelers, Pozzo and Lucky, do not recognize Vladimir and Estragon the second time around Vladimir and Estragon are nobodies who do not impact anyone elses lives but their own. Becketts piece demonstrates what peoples lives would be like if they existed but did little of anything else.
  • 9. The main characters wait for their ship to come in which they should really be paving their own way. Fictional setting , should construct their own meaning and apply it to their lives instead of waiting for live to happen.
  • 10. The world of today can be likened to The Beatles song Revolution 9. Verbal and musical sound clips coming forth in stereo, the one staple of the song is the spoken phrase, Number nine. All of those sound clips can be compared to the advancing technology that encompasses civilization, and the repeating phrase can be looked at as human values. The surrounding noise goes by and changes while that phrase does not.
  • 11. Civilization has witnessed the evolution of the phonograph to the, iPod , the typewriter to the laptop, working hours in the kitchen to the introduction of t.v. dinners. With all of those developments, humans still have to confront discrimination of all kinds, and values hold strong.
  • 12. Conclusion:- Present human values need an update because they are holding back those who recognize the need for change. Technology will keep progressing. Now, if only human values could catch up.