Waiting For Godot The Representation Of Life

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Waiting for Godot the Representation of Life Many writers use their writing to make us think about the purpose of life. One writer who used his play to make us think about the meaning of life is Samuel Beckett. The play that he wrote is called Waiting for Godot, which is a tragicomedy that reveals many characteristics of life and its purpose by using the idea of absurdism. Absurdism is the belief that life has no meaning because it is absurd. Waiting for Godot is an allegory for life. An allegory is a literary element used to represent events that have happened, or ideas about life. Beckett creates an allegory of life through the two characters Vladimir and Estragon who demonstrate that human life lacks meaning and purpose, that time confuses people by making them think that they are progressing while in reality it destroys them, and as a symbol of the human condition. A symbol is also a literary element that can be a person, place, or object which has a meaning in itself but also suggests a meaning beyond the obvious (Bokesch 1) Vladimir and Estragon show that life lacks meaning and purpose. Vladimir, who is one of the characters, demonstrates that life lacks meaning and purpose when he asks Estragon “Well? Shall we go?” and Estragon says, “Yes, let’s go,” but they do not move (Beckett 109). The author tries to prove that as humans, we say we are going to do many things that we never get to do. Often people procrastinate, making excuses, preventing them from doing what they actually need to do. We spend our time looking for things that we would never find and this would always prevent us from living our lives. Estragon and Vladimir would never have a life because they are wasting their time waiting for Godot to find the meaning of their lives, but Godot would never arrive. Other evidence is when Vladimir says “There’s nothing to do” (84). The

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