AGENDA:
1. Watch Seinfeld - The Chinese Restaurant
Take notes on plot. What really happens or doesn't happen? Pay attention to the dialogue. What do the characters discuss? What do they argue about? What happens that highlights the absurdity of daily life? Are there any serious reflections about life and humanity?
2. Names of characters change....characters unable to commit to any course of action....dialogue and absurdity....characters switch rapidly from serious questions and reflections on life to trivial bickering.
3. Make comparisons to Waiting for Godot.
HW: Answer the following questions (or a part of them) in a reflective journal write tonight - to be turned in tomorrow in class.
What are some of the things we wait for , perhaps indefinitely? What is our motivation for waiting? Does the waiting ever pay off or have meaning? What does the play say about choice? Do we have choices or only the illusion of choices? Do our actions have meaning? Do you agree with Beckett's ideas on this or not? Does waiting define life or interfere with it? What are we missing by waiting for something else? Is it possible to both wait and live at the same time? In what ways is communication meaningless or ineffective? What do you think the play might be commenting on here? Is true communication possible, or is something always lost when we try to express ourselves? What aspects of life are absurd? What do we accept as normal or rational that an outsider might see as absurd? Can life be absurd yet still have meaning and purpose?
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