The Bus Stop does touch on the theme of waiting, but, the positive action of the drifter-Quiet Man-encourages people of enterprise, and deny negative waiting, hence the negation of the absurdity of human existence.
The thesis also points out that thereexists disseverance in The Bus Stop between its realist features and modernist devices, especially that of absurdity.
The Bus Stop is a realist drama,which does touch on the motif of waiting,but the positive action of the drifter-Quiet Man-encourages people to stop waiting and move on,hence the negation of the absurdity of human existence.
At the beginning, this thesis makes a brief introduction to the two plays and their authors, expounding the Theatre of the Absurd represented by Waiting for Godot in terms of its translation, spread and performance in China, and probing into its impelling role in the rise of Chinese exploration plays.
While the enigmatic figure of Godot has attracted the bulk of critical interest, less has been said about the act of waiting which is also at the centre of Gao Xingjian"s Chezhan (The Bus Stop) and Patrick White"s Signal Driver.
During the great leap of 1958, there occurred on the railroads a general phenomena of nonconformity between demand and supply of transportation facilities. On the Shanghai-Nanking line, this contradiction seemed to be extraordinary serious. At present, the Shanghai Railway Administration has already taken measures to satisfy the increasing demand of transportation facilities, among which increase of train speed being one of the most important measures. In order to make definite the possibility of further i...