Aristotle and Godot
Aristotle has sets of rules to judge whether a certain piece of work should be called a drama or not. Some of those rules are Unity of Action, Unity of Place, Unity of Time, and Unity of Plot, and Universality of Plot. For Aristotle, these sets of rules should be obeyed by a writer for his/her work to be called a drama. He considers a drama an imitation of action, in which characters must be aimed at their goodness, propriety, veracity to life and consistency; imitations should be men in action, and these men must be class different; these characters must answer to these divisions [class division]: both the goodness and the badness. Also, comedy should be an imitation of characters of a lower type. Waiting for Godot agrees to Aristotle’s Unity of— Place, Action, Time, Plot, and, Universality of Plot. As a whole, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot does coincide with Aristotelian drama.
Unity of Place states that action should take place only in one place.......
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