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Waiting for Godot with Cat on the Rails (Formal and Thematic Overlaps of the Samuel Beckett's Play in the Play by Josef Topol)
Kykalová, Kateřina ; KYSELOVÁ, Eva (advisor) ; MUSILOVÁ, Martina (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the formal and thematic overlaps of the Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in the play Cat on the Rails by Josef Topol. Through a comparison of both texts the work finds similarities and differences in their genres, composition, dialogue, language, time and space, layout and characteristics of the characters, theme and individual motives. An initial impetus for its creation was an identification of the same basic situation of waiting in both plays and a theme of rootlessness of human existence, which speaks through the two central couples which always complement each other by their contrasting temperaments. Gradually, however, the work finds also a fundamental difference of the texts, namely the location of dramatic conflict, which divides Évi and Véna in Cat on the Rails while in Waiting for Godot it stands between the two vagrants and a bleak human destiny.
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