A thought upon the life of Samuel Beckett given through Waiting for Godot, "The light gleams for an instant, then it is night once more."(58) Samuel Beckett, author, critic and playwright, is one of the greatest manipulators of and exploiters of man's fundamental drama, life. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, his use of stylistic tools such as symbolism and the exuberance of language is detailed greatly in his 1953 play, Waiting for Godot. In which he created thematic schemes of existentialism, modernism, and transcendentalism to corroborate the absurdity of life.