Waiting for Godot

by S. Beckett

The two-act play goes against the traditional theater and generates a feeling of confusion. The
structure lacks structure and it illustrates life itself, irreguar, without a definite frame.

ESTRAGON: All the dead voices.

VLADIMIR: They make a noise like wings.
ESTRAGON: Like leaves.
VLADIMIR: Like sand.
- The language of the play is not coherent and the characters do not connect on an emotional
level. They are passive in terms of acting and their dialogue is cryptic.

Godot represents the aim and the nonsense.

Estragon: What am I to say?
Vladimir: Say, I am happy.
Estragon: I am happy.
Vladimir: So am I.
Estragon: So am I.
Vladimir: We are happy.What do we do now, now that we are happy?
-The characters are flat, they do not develop and stand for ordinary people, having no
individuality. They lack sensibility or emotion.

POZZO: (peremptory). Who is Godot?

ESTRAGON: Godot?
POZZO: You took me for Godot.
VLADIMIR: Oh no, Sir, not for an instant, Sir.
POZZO: Who is he?
VLADIMIR: Oh he's a . . . he's a kind of acquaintance.

-The absurdity of the play signifies in fact the absurdity of existence, of seaking meaning.
The play depicted unexpected themes and the characters that do not undergo any changes.They
have useless dialogues that do not draw any conclusions.
The emphasis is on the process of waiting: Waiting for Godot. If memory helps people to
reconstruct an event in a chronological order, this play lacks continuity, the characters lack a
sequence of the events.