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| • | Waiting for Godot (sometimes subtitled: tragicomedy in 2 acts) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, written in the late 1940s and first published in 1952. Beckett originally wrote Godot in French, his second language, as En attendant Godot (literally: While Waiting for Godot). An English translation by Beckett himself was published in 1955. The play is in two acts, and in both of them the tramps Vladimir and Estragon wait in vain by the roadside for Godot, with whom they (perhaps) have an appointment. The audience never learns who Godot is or the nature of the business they expect to transact with him. In each act the cruel Pozzo and his slave Lucky turn up, followed by a boy who gives Vladimir and Estragon the message that Godot will not come today "but surely tomorrow". This intentionally uneventful and repetitious plot symbolizes the tedium and meaninglessness of human life which is a common theme of existentialism. A common interpretation of the mysteriously absent Godot is that he represents God, though Beckett always denied this. Several unauthorized sequels where Godot actually arrives have been written by other authors, and at least one prequel. Source: [wikipedia: waiting for godot] |
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| Essay on Waiting for Godot | ||
| short essay by michael sinclair. | ||
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