Topical and Universal Element in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".

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In spite of the fact that "Waiting for Godot" has no spectacle, no star-part, no sex, no love or romance, no traditional story, no melodrama and action of the traditional drama, no emotions and not even a woman character, it has proved itself to be a world-theatre and a gripping and popular play and it has occupied the minds of its readers and play-goers. Though the nightmarish post-war world is the immediate cause (background) for …

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…as the opening one and the characters have been neither presented nor explained when the final curtain falls. Though the play frustrates completely in respect of the traditional or age-old ideas concerning drama, it keeps the audience glued to their chairs until the final curtain falls. It is really astonishing for a play so enigmatic, so exasperating, so complex, so uncompromising in its refusal to conform to any of the accepted ideas of dramatic construction.