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Waiting for godot themes4/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Angela Hotaling has the same idea of the tramps hope on Godot, goes on to explain it in such a way: The characters Vladimir and Estragon anxiously wait for Godot to come. ![]() Godot seems to be the only hope in the lives of the tramps, who have no existence without the hope for Godot, therefore their future depends on that hope because the tramps truly believe that Godot can rescue them from their hardship and discomfort. Hence, it seems life is waiting, and all these activities happen while we are waiting. So the ‘waiting’ represents a common theme both in absurdity as well as in reality. ![]() But there is no any hope for his arrival. Indeed in our lives we have rational and practical hopes which may be fulfilled one day, but it proves like the tramps, who seem to have irrational hopes waiting for the mysterious Godot to come and to be ‘saved’ (Beckett 60). Sometimes we wonder if waiting is a habit because waiting is tied with hope, and there is no human existence without hope. Their waiting functions as an absurd parallel to our real lives, as we wait our whole lives to be happy for something. We are waiting for Godot to come” (Beckett 51). The tramps are waiting for Godot, as Vladimir says, “In this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. Waiting is an essential characteristic of the human condition. The act of waiting that we find in this play is futile but unavoidable. This play shows two heroes whiling away the time in a succession of desultory and neverending games. The play is about two tramps waiting nowhere in particular for someone who never turns up. The major themes of Waiting for Godot are interminable waiting, ignorance, impotence, pang of mean existence, suffering of being, uncertainty vain optimism, futility and sterility of human life, purposelessness of human life, disintegration and so on. There is no female character in the play, which is the symbolic expression of the theme of sterility. The principal characters are a couple of tramps called Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo (an affluent and tyrant master), Lucky Pozzo’s decrepit slave who is treated like a beast of burden, whom Pozzo drives along by means of a rope tied round his neck, and last of a Boy, a messenger from Godot. The time of the plot is the present and the locale is a country road with a solitary tree which is barren. In other words, the play is tragicomedy in two Acts because it combines tragic and comic elements. ‘The saddest play and yet the funniest’ declared the English press for the simple reason that the theme of the play is serious but action is comic. It is considered as a milestone of modern British drama. The play is a landmark in modern drama and has been hailed as one of the greatest modern European classics of 20th Century. This is the horrible plight of the post war generation that the play foregrounds. Sometimes a man has no choice but hope in vain, and this is what the Waiting for Godot deals with. Optimism, as the saying goes, is the nucleus of life. When the scenery gets too drab and the action too slow, we’ll call each other names and swear to part for ever - but then, there’s no place to go! - San Quentin Prison Journal, November 1957 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is one of the most celebrated plays of the twentieth century. Hope We’re still waiting for Godot, and shall continue to wait.
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