“Waiting for Godot” portrays slavery through multiple layers of human bondage. The obvious master-slave relationship between Pozzo and Lucky combines with the main characters’ psychological imprisonment. Beckett uses these relationships...
“Nothing to be done” resonates throughout Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece and captures the essence of atheism in Waiting for Godot perfectly. This groundbreaking play makes us face life’s most basic questions...
Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” has created more theological debate than almost any other literary work. The play stands as an absurdist masterpiece, and its religious interpretation provides a fascinating...
A master drags his slave by a rope, creating one of the most dramatic moments in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” This strange duo, Pozzo and Lucky, elevates a simple...
Waiting for Godot is Beckett’s best-known play, which he wrote in French before translating it into English. It first appeared in 1953 and has since been translated into many languages,...
Auto-biographical Elements. Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot within the late months of 1948, three years after Allied forces had liberated France from German occupation, and a few scholars recommend that his struggle...
“Waiting for Godot” appears as depth-less play, “Nothing happens, no one comes, No one goes, and it’s awful”. However beneath its surface absurdity, there lie layer of meanings, presenting a...
Samuel Beckett’s drama, Waiting for Godot, first carried out in Paris in 1953, exemplifies the existential philosophy and important components of the theatre movement referred to as the “theatre of the...
