Samuel Beckett"s Waiting for Godot is an absurd play about two men, Vladimir Didi and Estragon Gogo who wait under a withered tree for Godot, who Vladimir says has an important but unknown message. This play is incredibly bizarre, because at times it is difficult to discern if there is a plot at all, and at other times, the play seems incredibly profound. One of the most ambiguous aspects of Beckett"s play is the identity of Godot. If the reader analyzes all the Biblical allusions, it is quite easy to say that Godot is God. Actually, the word Godot can...
the reader with this long, rambling, nonsense. But more importantly, Waiting for Godot illustrates an attitude toward man"s experience on earth: the poignancy, oppression, camaraderie, hope, corruption, scum, and bewilderment at the human antithesis that can only be reconciled in mind of the absurdist. If Godot is God, then Didi and Gogo"s mankind"s faith in God has almost entirely disappeared. Yet the illusion of faith--that deeply embedded hope that Godot might come--still flickers in the minds of Vladimir and Estragon. It is almost as if these two men see no reason to have faith, but cannot renounce it completely.