Vladimir: "What do we do now?"Estragon: "How about hanging ourselves?"Vladimir: "Hmm. It might give us an erection."In those three lines of dialogue my life was summarized better than it had ever been summarized before.
What a relief!I had been under the impression that Waiting for Godot was a religious allegory, where Estragon and Vladimir represented the two thieves crucified with Jesus, or society in general; Lucky represented Jesus; Pozzo represented organized religion; and the whole thing was some tortured, su...
Gogo, one the main characters, has a short-term memory loss (like Dory in Finding Nemo) and the other, Didi, was just lonely and old. Someone known as Godot, out of pity or sadism, would send someone to them everyday to make an appointment for the next day. And apparently these appointments were tho...
At once playfully satirical, coldly logical, laughably absurdist and philosophically probing, Waiting for Godot is one of the most intriguing plays in recent memory. Buried within its pages of odd dialogue are both a scathing indictment of humanity and an earnest search for its place in the universe...
Deceptively simple and completely absurd. See: Vladimir: (sententious.) To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten. Vladimir: Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.) Let us do something while we have the chance! It is not...
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