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Godot: The Theatre Of The Absurd

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The relationship between these two characters are difficult, because they are friends, they support each other, but it seems that they are going through hard times, and they often consider separating from each other, but they never do that: there is that inaction in the whole play that makes them not doing anything and not choosing a different path; they wait for Godot, and they do not do anything else.
Pozzo is the owner of the lands and also the Lucky’s owner. In the first act, he stops for resting with Vladimir and Estragon because he wants some company, but in their second act he just wants their help to stand up, and he has no memory of what happened the previous day. It is unknown why he is blind in the second act, but it could be interpreted …show more content…

In addition to this, it is known at the end of the play that this play has not really got an end: the story would continue the next day and it would be the same as the previous ones.
It is important to mention that this play is the most relevant play of the Theatre of the Absurd, which was a movement that emerged after the Second World War. This kind of theatre reflects weird and incoherent situations which seems that they do not have sense, but behind them it could have a secret metaphor that has to do with existentialism. Existentialism is the movement in which the Theatre of the Absurd was based, and it is related to the pointless life, the terms of life and death, the absurdity of the man being in contact with the world and the resignation.
The language used in this play is colloquial, and they even get to use expressions that are not usually used in theatre because of their vulgarity. It is also absurd, like the genre, because it seems not to mean anything, for example when Lucky starts thinking out loud (page …show more content…

Is there any explanation about human existence? They wanted to know how to define themselves in an irrational world.
There is also another more subjective interpretation: the play refers to anything that someone wants to do or achieve, but he (or she) cannot have it. Despite this situation, not having it makes him (or her) wanting it more, and he (or she) still has hope of having it.
Although there are a lot of interpretations, it is known that Becket was opposed to them because he just wanted to show the language, its form and the gesture in the theatre with an empty plot. As Vivian Mercier told in the Irish Times, Samuel Becket had “written a play in which nothing happens, twice”. The characters are waiting for Godot but nothing happens, and that is why the plot is empty, and that gives Becket the chance to play with the

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