Similar and Different “Waitings“ —A Comparative Reading of Waiting for Lefty, Waiting for Godot, and The Bus Station

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10.2991/jisem-15.2015.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

waiting; Clifford Odets; Samuel Beackett; Gao Xingjian; life; hope

Abstract

These three plays are in a degree involved in the same theme of "waiting". In the broadest sense, the three "waitings" share some conceptions, but in a narrow sense, each waiting in each of the three plays reveals different meanings. This paper discusses the different symbols of the three waitings according to their different cultural backgrounds, explores the same meaning of them on the basis of the same background—in the same world of great lifism, and finally puts forward the rational attitude towards life and the waiting in life.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhao Luhua
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TI  - Similar and Different “Waitings“ —A Comparative Reading of Waiting for Lefty, Waiting for Godot, and The Bus Station
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 Joint International Social Science, Education, Language, Management and Business Conference
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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