Waiting For Godot Mean Time and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
This essay shows the similarities and differences related to the handling of time of three stories which are: Waiting For Godot, Mean Time, and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.In Waiting for Godot, the author shows different ways of spending time. The purpose of the story is to pass time because the characters are waiting for Godot.In page 4, Vladimir asks to Estragon if he remembers the Gospels, who answers that he doesn't, so Vladimir tries to tell the story saying that "it'll pass the time". This means that they have to wait, they don't know how much, and if they don't talk about something they'll get bored and it'll seem that time won't pass.In page 8 is Stragon who tries to talk about something asking Vladimir "You know the story of the Englishman in the brothel?". In the page 9 Vladimir asks "what do we do now (...) while waiting". Here they try to pass the time by doing something rather that speaking. This kind of things happens throughout the story, so the main intention of the author is to show that when there's nothing to do time seems to be stopped.In Mean Time, the author centers the poem in season time with the first line:The clocks slid back an hour in Autum, due to
"But we will be dead, as we know, beyond all light"This line of the last stanza shows the inevitability of the pass of time, it's something that will happen in one way or another. Additionally, talking about "wise men", "good men", "wild men", and "grave men", which he express that his father had all this qualities, he refers to the passing of time as being equaly to all people meaning that death comes for all and that there is always something that everyone would like to have done but time pass quickly so they couldn't do it and, since time has passed, it is too late to do it. Although Waiting For Godot has no similarities with Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, there is one with Mean Time, that the time seems not to pass, it is endless: in the first one it happens because the characters are waiting for someone, and in the last one it's because of the afliction of the character. In Waiting For Godot, there is a need of spending time somehow to make it last less, while in the other two stories there is no need of it: in Mean Time it would be better if time went back so the character could repair the mistakes that she and her ex-partner had made, while in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night it would be better if time hadn't pass that fast, so people could live longer and therefore the author's father could spend more time with his son. That is because time pass very fast and thus life becomes short, so people should fight against death. However, there is a difference between them which shows the speed of the passing of time: whereas in Mean Time, it is slow because the feeling expressed is sadness and depression and this make it longer, in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, it goes fast and when people realise of it, they're starting to die. In the first stanza the author refers to the end of life when he talks about the "close of day", and of fighting death when he says "rage, rage against the dying of the day". her broken relationship with her partner, and this season has to do with sadness, depressions, deaths, loss. However it has differences which are reflected in the need of passing time. In Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, the author express the inevitability of the passing of time. "This mean that during their lives, wild men did whatever they wanted and lived so quickly and impulsively that it doesn't leave them time to think because it goes very fast, but they don't realise about that. In the fourth stanza the author says:"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,.
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