Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play, Waiting for Godot, evolves around two homeless men, waiting for someone or something called Godot. The play contains none of the characteristics of a usual play. At its premiere in 1952 the audience was completely puzzled by the lack of progression of the plot, scenery, or a climax. Although this comedy might, at first, appear to be a compilation of senseless wordplay and humorous jousting, it has a much deeper meaning: Meaning itself. Beckett tries to point out, that we should not place our lives into the hands of a higher force and that there is a need for action.
The two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, throughout the whole play follow their one and only task of waiting
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