Waiting for godot symbols2/3/2024 Waiting for the ‘Godot’ may be a symbol of man’s waiting for a Divine Saviour, a wait that, obviously, must go on and on. Or he may be considered a link in the Resistance movement, with Estragon and Vladimir two Resistance workers who have been told to contact him. Godot may be a representative in Beckett’s contemporary terms of some authority who has promised protection to the tramps who may be regarded as symbolic of the ordinary French citizen in France under the German occupation. The theme of waiting, in the abstract, combines with that of waiting mysterious stranger, which has obvious symbolic dimensions and implications. Post-War Disillusionment in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.Each act ends with a respite in waiting, but it is made clear that waiting must go on the next day and then the next, until Godot comes, of which they do not seem to harbour any real hope. They indulge in repetitive, pointless activities. They also tell worn-out jokes and anecdotes to each other. The various attitudes of the tramps enhance this theme, for example going to one edge and then to the other of the stage and looking into the distance, with the eyes shielded by the hand. Estragon agrees, although reluctantly, every time. This waiting is compulsive Estragon suggests more than once that they might leave, but Vladimir reminds him that they dare not- they are waiting for Godot. It is to lighten the tedium of endless waiting that the tramps resort to various devices to pass the time. Waiting conditions everything in this play. There is a lot in this view, for not only does the reader wait, with Estragon and Vladimir, for the arrival of the mysterious Godot, he also waits breathlessly and futilely for something to happen. Some even go to the extent of saying that this is not a play about waiting, but is in itself waiting. Many critics say that waiting is itself the theme of the play. the theme of the meaninglessness of space, time and identity.įor a proper understanding of the meaning of this play, it is necessary to know the working out of all these themes.the theme of economic and intellectual exploitation and. the theme of the prevalence of suffering,.the theme of the triviality and boredom of human life,.
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