Reality In Waiting For Godot

Characters uncertain about reality

Beckett's works bring questions about how reality is understood. Following Nietzsche's concept of consciousness, as the interpretative character of all events. With this it could be thought that there is no such a thing as an event in itself, but a series of appearances that are brought together by an interpreting being. The same applies to our inner feelings, impressions and ideas. The self digests the outer and inner realities and makes its own interpretation. So that any pure reality can be said to remain. What it is present all the time is the act of becoming conscious. footnote (1) Iser.

Given that there is a lack of meaning in life, that religions or ideologies can't be the solution to existential starvation, Beckett's aesthetics function as a process

The delaying of the appeareance of Godot, who is expected to be the one who will elucidate them, is a mere mirage. In Beckett's aesthetic form, the place that Godot occupies is that of an equivalent in traditional literature to the interpretations that sustain reality. The romantic, moralistic, sentimental, or philosophical interpretations that are implicit in the text, the authors subjectivity. And as the play is structured as a process of waiting for Godot, the audience is deprived on purpose of this interpretations, so that a feeling of abysmal absence, predominates in the play.
As Eva Metman explains that man is shown in a world lacking of divine or demonic powers, but alone with them, foot note (2) Eva Metman, 'Reflections on Samuel Beckett's plays', in Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. by Martin Esslin (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965), 117-139, p.