The innuendo is that people's lives are as boring, empty and desperate as the protagonist. Godot can also be regarded as the embodiment of hope. People wait in pain and despair, but they have to wait.
Waiting for Godot shows a tragedy in which nothing happened, no one came and no one left. The works focus on people's mentality, the process of psychological activities and the obstacles of people's psychological activities. The characters in the work have no distinct personality, and the work has no coherent story. Waiting for Godot is a real innovation in the history of drama, and it is also the first absurd drama successfully performed.
In Waiting for Godot, two vagrants wait for Godot, but Godot doesn't come, which shows that life is an endless and hopeless waiting, expresses the absurd and painful existentialism of the world, and also reflects the general emptiness and despair of the capitalist world after World War II.
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The time and place for waiting for Godot are vague, and the scenery is desolate, with only a small mound and even a tree without leaves. The atmosphere caused by such a scene is chaotic and nihilistic. Two main characters, Vladimir and Estrogen, are waiting for an unidentified person.
While waiting, they used various meaningless means to kill time. They often appear confused and lack thinking ability, especially they are extremely afraid of loneliness. This excerpt is located at the front of the whole play, and the two are entertaining themselves in various ways. When Estrogen fell asleep, Vladimir woke him up and said, "Me.
feel
Loneliness.
When they tried to hang themselves, Estragon didn't take death too seriously, but thought that a person was too lonely. Although these details seem absurd, they can touch people's innermost feelings, and in another sense, they are also very touching. This play shows a typical psychological state of fear, embarrassment and disorientation after World War II.
The result of the two people's waiting finally didn't explain. Gordo sent a boy to say that he would come, as if there was still hope. However, Waiting for Godot is the last play. Although Godot has never appeared, it occupies an important position in the play, because the waiting for him by two vagrants constitutes the center of the whole play.
Some people think that Godot evolved from the English word "God". "God" means God, God and Creator, so Godo implies God; Others think that Godot symbolizes death. When someone asked "What does Godot stand for", Beckett said, "If I knew, I would say it in the play."
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