Besides, he always remains pessimistic and never really strives to achieve anything. On the other hand, Estragon doesn’t remember anything and he just wants to leave. In that context, Vladimir remembers what has happened yesterday to be happy about today, while waiting to meet Godot. For a person to be able to appreciate the present, the memory about the past becomes a crucial factor. This, in today’s world, applies to many people and ‘Waiting for Godot’ boldly underlines this fact.Īnother aspect about the weakness of humans that I can infer from this play is the lack of ability to appreciate life. This, as per my interpretation, reflects the immobility of both characters but on the other hand, it also illustrates the weakness of mankind. On another level, they had the desire to achieve a goal but they were not prepared to put in any efforts to accomplish their objectives. I have become interested in analyzing what they have done in order to meet Godot and, ironically, it transpires that they did nothing other than just waiting. But, in fact, Godot never appears for them no matter how earnest their waiting is. Godot is perceived as God or someone who will provide Vladimir and Estragon, the two main characters in the story, with happiness. “Waiting for Godot,” in my opinion, is a work that attempts to define the weakness of humans. Events will keep happening in their lives, and lives will not cease because waiting for Godot is the only hope and their reason to live. In my opinion Beckett is emphasizing on his characters’ hope in “Waiting for Godot.” The wait for hope is further accentuated when the boy says, “Godot will come the next day.” Moreover, both Estregers and Vladimir continue to wait for Godot and they never give up. On the other hand, Pozzo has to worry about passing time. It is Pozzo who thinks of and finds the time and place for Lucky. Another interesting interpretation I discerned from the story is that Lucky, slave of Pozzo, got that name because of his luck – he doesn’t think of or wait for hope because of the simple fact that Pozzo determines what he should or should not do. They wait for Godot even though the action is fruitless. However, for the characters, the act of waiting keeps going on as a ceaseless endeavor. The play further purports that time, in fact, is immobility except for simpler truths like the tree grows and Pozzo becomes blind. The characters don’t remember anything because if they do, they won’t live their lives as they will come to know it is meaningless.
As the plot unfolds, the actions of the characters are so described that I felt each day, like a circle, is a return to its beginning. I believe that by doing this, the author wants to elicit a dialog and thus make the play to move on at a good pace.
An interesting reflection I had on this play is that the characters forget everything about their past.
In this play, Beckett shows an example of how a person can pass time in situations such as mundane topics, sleeping, chatting with Pozzo and Lucky and contemplating suicide.
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