My topic : Waiting Of Mike is Michael Table of My Content : About Waiting For Godot and Movie "Mine" Similarities and Dissimilarities in both why I choose this title

1. SMT S.B. Gardi Department of
English M.K.Bhavnagar
Name : Ruchita Kankrecha A
Roll No : 29
Topic Name : Waiting Of Mike is Michael
Paper Name : Modern Literature
Submitted To : Department Of English
E-mail ID : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com
Enrollment No : 2069108420190024

2. Table Of Contents
• About Author
• About “Waiting For Godot”
• About Movie “Mine”
• Similarities and Dissimilarities in The Play and
Movie
• Why I Choose this Title

3. About Author
• Samuel Beckett
• Novelist, Short Story writer,
Theatre Director and Literary
Translator
• Wrote in Both English and
French
• Won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1969
• Considered one of The last
Modernist Writer

4. Waiting For Godot
• Waiting for Godot is translation of his
own original play in French language
“En attendant Godot”
• Subtitled “A tragicomedy in Two Act”
• Main Characters : Vldimir
Estragon
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Best Existential play
• Key Points : Not Poetic Justice
Existentialism
Meaninglessness
Absurdity of the Modern Life

5. Mine – 2016 Movie
• Psychological Triller War
Movie
• Written and Directed By Fabio
Guaglione
• Main Characters :
Mike Stevens
Tommy Madison
Berber and His Daughter
• Key Points :
Absurd
The story of two US Marines
Life Experience
Waiting – Life and Death

6. Story of the Movie
• Mike and Tommy are on one secret mission
• Both are discovered By the enemy and attacked
• Find their way to Village
• Tommy steps on a land of Mine which blows off
his legs and after some times he kills himself
• Mike also steps on Mine but he realize and
survive
• After sometimes he meet Berber who also lost
his leg and his wife

7. Helping Nature
• Relationship between
Vldimir and Estradon
• Caring Nature of Vldimir
• Motivates Estragon to
continue waiting for
Godot
• Protect Estragon
• Relationship between
Mike and Tommy, Berber
and Mike, Berber’s
Daughter and Mike
• Caring nature of Tommy
and Berber
• Berber motivate Mike to
Move
• Protect Mike

8. Boy - Berber
• In the play as boy said
Vldimir that he knows
that who is Godot and
Where he is living
• Berber knows that
where Mine is located

9. Free man
• Vldimir and Estragon –
free man
• To wait or to move
• Berber is free Man but
Mike is Not
• Steps on a landmine in
the desert heat and he
has to wait 52 hours
before help arrives
• Mike remain rooted to
the spot and all manner
of troubles assail him

10. Messenger of God
• In both the Act, we can
find one Boy
Messenger who inform
Vldimir,
• “Mr. Godot told me to
tell you he won’t come
this evening but surly
tomorrow”
• In the movie, Berber
come and says Mike to
move or to do
something

11. Existential Ending
• Vldimir and Estragon
Think about suicide
• Symbol of Rope
• Mike think to kill
himself
• Symbol Of Gun

12. Lucky’s Speech and Berber’s
conversation with Mike
• Lucky faces the auditorium and commences
his speech
• According to Martin Essline, Lucky’s speech
is “ Wild Schizophrenic word of Salad”

13. Absurdity in play and Movie
• In the play, Vldimir and
Estragon, they are
doing nothing and
waiting for Godot who
never arrives
• In the movie, Mike is
waiting for someone's
Arrival

14. World War 2 and Symbol of Mine
• The play written after
World War 2
• Theme of Absurdity
and life of the human
beings
• Mine as a symbol War
• Use to Kill enemy and
Protect the Nation

15. Similarities and Dissimilarities
• In The Movie and The play we can Similarities like
Helping Nature, Free will, Absurdity, World war 2
and the symbol of Mine, God messenger, Existential
Ending
• We can find dissimilarities in the movie and the play.
The end of the play is very confusing one and it is not
clear that they will meet Godot or not or they come
again or not but the end of the movie is well planned.
Finally Mike realized that there is no Mine and he
survive. So we can see the poetic justice in the movie
but not in the Play. In the movie Mike lost his friend .

16. “Waiting of Mike is Michael”