Waiting for Salvation
About Waiting for Godot and Significance
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a play that captures the fate of human existence. People depend on chaos, hope and chance to provide their lives with purpose as well as meaning while they continue to wait for salvation.
Samuel Beckett’s play symbolizes the desire of all human beings to seek for answers regarding the purpose of human existence. Throughout their quest, people are confronted with obstacles and challenges. Some are able to be overcome them and some are not. But, hope, determination and the will to go on help to give some people the strength to carry on. Beckett shows the hopelessness that is present in the lives of Vladimir and Estragon in the way they struggle to pass time. The phrase “Nothing to be done”1 is a recurring saying that adds to this hopelessness. Vladimir and Estragon are also are tied to Godot, who symbolizes salvation. Their daily struggles contain no orderly sequence or......
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