Importance Of Time In Waiting For Godot

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, first performed in 1953 in Paris, portrays two middle-aged men who are imprisoned within a life driven by a meaningless or incoherent purpose. The characters Vladimir and Estragon are trapped in unrest until they meet Godot, the unknown person whom the characters must wait for, to no avail. Time is shown to work differently in Waiting for Godot, as it is a “play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats”, stated by Vivian Mercier, who is famous for studying and critiquing the play. In traditional plays, time is usually demonstrated as a standard of a beginning, middle and an end. In Waiting for Godot, time works like a circle. Beckett plays with the idea of passing time by adding events such as the appearances of Pozzo and Lucky or the arrivals of the boy. However, these events deprive the progression of time of having any meaning, where it may seem

During a conversation between Vladimir and Estragon, it is possible to see how time has lost its course in the play, as Vladimir and Estragon are both unaware of what day it

Existentialism is a philosophy that promotes the idea that every individual is responsible for bringing meaning into his or her own life. Waiting for Godot shows how everyone is wasting their lives waiting for a God or a deity to bring salvation, which is exactly what Vladimir and Estragon are doing in the play. The first piece of dialogue in the play, said by Estragon is “Nothing to be done.”, and is constantly repeated throughout the play as “We can’t do anything.” Over and over again, they find ways to keep them from waiting, to pass the time. As I said, at the end of each act, they both decide to leave, by saying the same