Comparison Of Vladimir And Estragon In Waiting For Godot

In the play, Waiting For Godot, written by Samuel Beckett, two characters named Vladimir and Estragon are forever waiting for the appearance of an entity named Godot at willow tree. Throughout the play, Godot never shows us so Vladimir and Estragon are in the same location perpetually. Now, throughout the play, I realized that these two characters, Vladimir and Estragon (from my perspective) seem to both want to do something about their current situation but they are still there in same spot. Vladimir believes that waiting for Godot is the appropriate and right thing to do. Estragon is extremely bent on leaving the willow tree and does not see the point in waiting for Godot. Now I have a point here—they both want to move forward but in different …show more content…
When observing each character you realize that one individual wants to stick to the past and the other wants to move onwards. Vladimir desires to stay at the tree and wait for Godot. He does not want to throw away the old customs and have amnesia; Vladimir wants to fasten himself and cling himself to the older culture. With Estragon, well prepare, all set and willing to take action to move away from the tree. Estragon is a type of individual that is ready to replace the old customs and old traditions with the new cultural practices.

At the end of the day, Estragon and Vladimir acquired the inclination to move forward in divergent manners. Although they wanted to take action, there was still ineffective action being involved. The ineffective action that is displayed and exhibited in Waiting For Godot, is that they are both contemplating. They are still deliberating about whether they should both separate and move on with their own beliefs or just stay in their current …show more content…
Her suicide does not just portray her losing her life, but it could possibly symbolize and illustrate her lacerating herself from her “source of culture.” She did not want to be in a glass bottle anymore and wanted to take matters into her own hands by completely cutting herself from her mother. This could also represent her separating herself away from her mother’s cultural umbilical cord. From my perception, Sylvia was too focused on saying “Off, off, eely tentacle! There is nothing between us” (quote) and separating herself from her source of culture. If only she had allowed time to take over she would have been grateful for what her culture has to offer to her.

In the romance play, The Winter’s Tale, written by famous William Shakespeare, it speaks about a jealous King Leontes, who believes his childhood friend is responsible for his wife’s pregnancy. As a result, his jealousy turns him into ruining the friendship that he had once established with King Polixenes, and also causes his wife to “die” and abandons his daughter Perdita (who’s name means the lost female). After sixteen years, she returns to Sicily and reveals her identity to her