![]() ![]() “What exactly did we ask him for?… nothing very definite. As we delve further in the play we learn that Vladimir’s incentive on waiting for Godot is like a prayer or vague supplication. Their action of ‘waiting’ is virtually their only meaning and thing for them to do in their life, despite Estragon’s measly efforts to leave and move along with life, Vladimir insists on waiting. The road signifies movement, a set path, and progress, which completely contradict their meaningless actions. As mentioned before they almost seem stuck in this monotonous cyclic life of waiting, Vladimir and Estragon fill their time with mundane activities and insignificant conversations, while never leaving or moving down the road. Estragon and Vladimir spend the whole play on the side of a dirt road waiting for Godot, whom they are not sure if they’ve met, or if they’re waiting for him at the right place, or if it is the right day, they’re not even sure if Godot is going to appear at all. The nonsensical actions and repetition of the characters encounters are used by Beckett to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of their actions to give meaning to their life.īeckett wonderfully utilizes irony to depict the farce nature of life, through the juxtaposition in the characters actions with the setting of a dirt road. During the play, they are perpetually stuck living their days waiting by a dirt road for a man named Godot, while waiting they encounter two men, Pozzo and Lucky, one being a slave master and the other a slave respectively. The play begins with no aforementioned context, with two tramps like character, Vladimir and Estragon. Beckett displays the absurdity through irony and characterization of the characters. The existential play Waiting for Godot, explores themes of absurdity, in particular, the absurdity of life, and furthermore how our actions to ascribe meaning to life is futile.
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