Critical Analysis Of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot

||.Waiting for Godot (1953) by Samuel Beckett

In waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett presents the human kind through a dark vision on the stage. Waiting for Godot is a twentieth-century play which introduces a searching for a meaning to life and “ questioning not the existence of God but the existence of existence” (Sternlicht 50). Waiting for Godot considers an unusual play according to its Elements of plot and developing narration. It represents in a “ timeless scene and in a timeless world”. The characters are waiting in ‘vain’ for Godot(Sternlicht 51). They are like other human beings who continue to wait, to hope that what they want in life will come to them someday. They never mind how long they will wait. They try to keep some communication with the others or maintain people with whom their lives are linked.

Beckett thinks that “the modern artist” is like someone in a trap because there is nothing to express but the main artist’s work, paradoxically, is to express. Meanwhile, he considers living as a suffering, hope is brutal, and existence may be disgusting, but when humans realize this wisdom, life can be bearable ( Esslin 19).

Waiting for Godot (1953) considers Beckett’s best drama about human condition. The first performance of the drama was in Paris, in France and then it was produced in English in London. It did not achieve success at first in the United States but then it was considered as a masterpieces of the absurd drama. Waiting for Godot is a “minimalist