Waiting for Godot Page Analysis

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“Waiting for Godot,” by Samuel Beckett is a tragicomedy about two men waiting for a man to give them purpose in life. They wait and wait and no one ever comes. They pass the time by blathering and sitting around. Despite the simplicity of the text the play has many themes woven into it such as morality, absurdity, consciousness (and so on) in only two acts. The last few pages of the play show the themes of consciousness and repetition that Beckett was trying to embed in the play. At the end of act II Vladimir was beginning to be aware of his surroundings. He remembered the day before when no one else seemed to. He kept repeating conversations with Estragon to encourage him to remember but nothing worked. After a while Vladimir caught on to the pattern of their lives. It seemed as if Vladimir’s consciousness had awakened when he said: “To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? That with Estragon my friend at this place, until the fall of the night, I waited for Godot?” (page 104, line 16-19). Vladimir began to understand that everything he does day by day is the same. He knows that no one will remember the day before and even he might forget. He knows that they will come to the same spot, yet again, and wait for Godot. Continuing on Vladimir says: “But in all that what truth will there be? (Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again. Vladimir looks at him.) He’ll know nothing. He’ll tell me about the blows he received and I’ll give him a carrot” (page 104, line 21-25) and here he also shows that he knows what will come tomorrow. He is fully aware that they do nothing every day except wait for Godot and try to pass the time. The last example of consciousness that Beckett gives us is when the boy arrives once again to greet the men. As soon as he appeared Vladimir knew the whole conversation before they began to

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