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1. Explain Title waiting for Barbarians with reference to waiting For Gotod
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Department of English
Name: Baldaniya Vanita
Class: M. A. Part-2
Semester: 4
Paper: 14
The African Literature.
Guidance By: Heenaba Zala

2. Two Novel
Waiting for Godot
• Author: Samuel Beckett
• Language: French
• Date of Publication: 1953
Waiting for barbarian
• Author: J.M. Coetzee
• Language: English
• Genre: Novel
• Publication date: 1980

3. Waiting for Barbarian
About him
• The family mainly spoke English
at home, but John spoke
Afrikaans with other relatives.
He is descended from early
Dutch immigrants to South
Africa in the 17th century, while
his mother was a descendant of
German and Polish immigrants.
J. M. Coetzee

4. About the Waiting for Barbarian
• A magistrate in charge of administering the law in a colonial town
witnesses the torture of the invaded indigenous population. The
colony or the place is unspecified. Most characters have no names,
although the circumstances surrounding the events indicate that the
colony is South Africa while the barbarians indicate the black
population. The magistrate is of unspecified age although he refers to
himself as approaching retirement. At first loyal and dutiful the
magistrate becomes skeptical about the legal system he represents.
He questions its effectiveness, but if he were to leave his successor
could be more ruthless.

5. • The magistrate is content with his life until the investigation to
examine the alleged barbarian uprising occurs. Colonel Joll is sent to
establish the extent of danger that the barbarians, who live behind
the border may pose to the colony. He captures natives to extract
information from them about any uprising. Colonel Joll's methods to
obtain evidence is by torture. How effective such methods may be is
questionable even for the magistrate.
• The magistrate meets one of the victims of these interrogations, a
young girl, on the street. She was abandoned by her people when
they were released from prison. The magistrate, partly attracted to
the girl and partly feeling responsible for the torture inflicted on her,
offers her work in his house.

6. • He examines her injuries, washes her, and takes care of her. Despite
his good intentions towards her he becomes confused about his
feelings for her. He is attracted to her and tries to inspire the same
feelings in her. Their relationship lacks mutual understanding of each
other. They often fail to communicate what they feel towards each
other. Their confusion leads to frustration. The magistrate goes back
to having sex with his previous casual partner. His frustration grows,
however, both with himself and with the girl. He decides to take her
back to her own people.

7. Upon his return the magistrate is imprisoned for the alleged conspiracy
with barbarians, becoming the victim of the system he once
represented himself. He is kept in prison without trial, tortured, and
eventually released. After a mock-up execution he is set free, but not
allowed to work he leads the life of a vagrant and a beggar.
The army sent to fight the barbarians is trapped and left to die in the
desert without food and water. The remaining soldier’s loot the town,
leaving it exposed to attacks. Those who were to protect the town now
engage in crime themselves. Even those in charge become corrupt,
choosing the support of their soldiers over what is right.

8. The magistrate eventually regains his previous position. Together with
the inhabitants he devises various means of protection, where they
fake the presence of soldiers. Peace returns, but the magistrate has
many regrets about the past, realizing his mistakes while feeling
ashamed about the treatment of the barbarians. He realizes he is
unable to provide a historical account of what happened. The reality of
life on the frontier is to live through seasons and cycles rather than
events with beginnings and ends. A historical account would fail to
express his admiration for the place he considers a paradise on earth.

9. Waiting for Godot
Samuel Bucket
About him
• Samuel Barclay Beckett ( 13 April
1906 – 22 December 1989) was
an Irish avant-garde novelist,
playwright, theater director, and
poet, who lived in Paris for most of
his adult life and wrote in both
English and French. He is widely
regarded as among the most
influential writers of the 20th
century.

10. About The Waiting for Godot
• The play opens on an outdoor scene of two bedraggled companions:
the philosophical Vladimir and the weary Estragon who, at the
moment, cannot remove his boots, from his aching feet, finally
muttering,
• Vladimir takes up the thought loftily. While Estragon vaguely recall
having been beaten the night before. Finally, his boots come off, while
the repair ramble and biker pointlessly.

11. • Vladimir reminds to Estragon that we waiting for Godot..
• This above dialogue repeat more time…
They have full day wait of Godot… but Godot not come…
• They speculate on the potential rewards of continuing to wait for
Godot, but can come to no definite conclusion.
• When Estragon declares his hunger, Vladimir provides a carrot, at
which Estragon idly gnaws, loudly reiterating his boredom.

12. • Lucky and Pozzo come..
(relation between Master and Slave)
Boy come… Vladimir say something question about Godot… Boy give
answer of question …yes sir, No sir,.
Full day wait but Godot never come..

13. Waiting For Godot
• Nothing to be done…
• Wait of godot but godot never
come.
• Who is Godot…
• Why wait of Godot.
Waiting for Barbarian
• Why other people not cross of
border.
• magistrate why make a servant
of street young girl. And why he
physical relation with young girl.
• Joll always wait of Barbarian
then why Barbarian is not
come..? So that is some thing
that never they have come.
Wait for Godot or barbarian But they have never come… But that is symbolized that they have not wait for any
person or people but they have wait for death…