The Purpose Of Meaning In Waiting For Godot By Samuel Beckett

What is the purpose of us being on this very Earth? The answer may seem out of our reach. We don’t know who to ask, and we certainly don’t know where to start looking. Since birth we’ve had our whole theory of existence told to us through questions without answers. As time progresses we find ourselves more frustrated when our own meanings continue changing the more we attempt to sort it ourselves. Perhaps we’re looking for meaning that isn’t there or we aren’t worthy of that one true explanation. So we sit and wait until a greater force says we are. The play, “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett captures the feelings and perspective of two men who spend endless days waiting to be told something beyond their understanding. In the play we meet Estragon who’s also known as “Gogo,” a very aberrant human being with a child-like spirit, whom we meet after he comes back from lying in ditch all night. With his chronically poor memory and need for direction, we assume that he’s the dead weight of the two. Throughout the play he’s always trying to fall asleep or stay asleep and successfully doesn’t manage to. Though on the outside he may appear as a simple minded being lacking substantial intellect, inside we learn he’s more of deep thinker than meets …show more content…
His memory is superb, and his logic makes more sense, and it contrasts Estragon’s whose logic comes in a riddle like fashion. Though both painted as more than just ordinary friends, Vladimir points out Estragon would be nothing without him. It is through Vladimir that we learn about this mysterious Godot character, who has yet to be seen, and it is through him that we experience the state of distress when we aren’t able to get all the answers in the time we want them, and how the impatience for them can get the best of