1. What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings? This above 2 different pictures "Longing" which is by Casper David Friedrich. He has drawn two paintings & both paintings has same nature background. From these paintings Samuel Beckett got inspiration for his setting of the play " Waiting for Godot". As we can see that the two pictures are not widely different. But there are wide difference of thinking of both David Friedrich and Samuel Beckett because Friedrich belongs to romanticism, so his depiction of nature has different meaning and Beckett's depiction of nature has different meaning. As per the David's depiction of nature:- it arose at a period when the idea of god was being translated into the idea of nature. While Samuel Beckett's vision is very pessimistic. It shows the absurd insignificance of mankind. (We) The human beings always longing for someth...