Waiting For Godot Character Analysis

Godot Essay

The play “Waiting For Godot” has many characters that are detrimental to the success that Beckett had in writing, but what about the most important character that doesn 't even make one appearance in the play? Godot. Godot is not only important because his name is in the title but because he is the main focus in the play. Godot also affects the central theme of the book and the development of every other character in the play.

Something that Godot affectseffects and is the central purpose of in Waiting for Godot is the theme. The theme of the play to me is not only time and the importance or lack of importance of it but the uncertainty of putting all of their time ito waiting for Godot. The amount of uncertainty in the book affects the thought of what the

When the play begins the setting said “A country road. A tree.” and at the beginning of the second act Beckett said “Next day. Same time. Same place.” When you read the play you realize that it only takes place in one location, to me the only reason for that is the main characters and the fact that they never left the spot because they are still waiting for Godot. The two main characters Didi(Vladimir) and Gogo(Estragon) prioritize the importance of waiting for Godot over everything else. Vladimir asks Estragon “Well? What do we do?” ... Estragon said “Good idea” (pg. 10). They put waiting on someone or something over anything else that they may find important as if Godot’s opinion was worth more. Multiple times Didi and Gogo decide to leave the spot they are in and go somewhere else but then remember that waiting for Godot is more important than what they could do somewhere else. This sense of dependency on Godot is present even without knowing who Godot is or even looks like. For example when Estragon said “Is that him?” … Pozzo replying “I say does that name mean nothing to you?” Pg.