The age of modernity is normally characterized by the development of innovative transportation, technology, and communication in the early 1900s, but it is better defined as the transformation of literature from revolving around the "American dream" to exploring the depths of human nature and existence. This change, however, did not evoke an alteration to the expectations that an audience brings to a literary work. People who read novels and plays have a desire to be presented with a parabolic creation, one that begins, climaxes, and ends. Beckett's two act tragedy, Waiting for Godot, is a work of the existential mindset that begins in the middle where it ends.
Beckett threw out the idea of literary norms in many of his works, but Waiting for Godot came to be one of the most praised and ridiculed pieces of all time. In terms of overthrowing literary norms, Godot does not have a beginning, a middle or an even an end. It does, in the literal sense, have an ending, but it does not......

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Title: Godot: Modernity
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