I'm Still Waiting

French Resistance. As an Irishman helping the French, Beckett fearfully watched WWII much like his characters Vladimir and Estragon fearfully watched the episodes of Pozzo and Lucky. In contrast, Stoppard was a child still discovering the world during WWII. When compared to Waiting for Godot, Tom Stoppard’s characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern experience the story of Hamlet with a reflection of childlike…

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…

In many restaurants today numerous people can see that there are more waitresses instead of waiters. “In other words, waiting on tables is defined as typical ‘women’s work’ because women perform it and because the work activities are considered ‘feminine’” (Hall, 329). Why? Why is this position considered something that only women should be preforming? I think that waiting on tables and being a server has been considered mainly done by women for a long period of time based on the research that…

a plaza at 14092 Magnolia Street of Westminster. It is a Vietnamese restaurant in California 's Little Saigon. At the entrance of Ngu Binh, there is a wooden bench to one side for people waiting outside. On one side of the glass doors, there is a clip board with a yellow legal notepad with a list of names waiting to be called and seated. Inside, the table tops are made up of marble. All of the tables have at least two chairs on each of the longer sides. There is at least four chairs at each…

The scent was overpowering and it made me want to order a steak. Our hostess greeted our party cheerfully with six people the wait was going to be twenty minutes. This was not bad because the waiting area had a two big fifty inch flat screen televisions as entertainment. While sitting down waiting for our table to be called, you are able to eat free peanuts. The peanuts where in an old century barrel that gave off a wood like aroma. The peanuts must be good because, shells filled the floor,…

So their Godot is Lucky’s Pozzo. The idea here is that they might recognize that waiting for salvation from Godot is to wait for nothing or to wait for an…

Absurdity in The Outsider Albert Camus, one of the eminent French novelist, essayist and playwright is often considered as a nihilist, or extreme absurdist who believes that life is senseless and useless. ‘The Outsider’, Camus’s first novel is a representation of his absurd thinking about the world. The use of the term ‘absurd’ in literature is a vehicle for writers to explore and represent those elements in the world that do not make sense and ‘The Outsider’ is one of the beautiful…

In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot two vagabonds wait for man who is only identifiable by his name. The pair attempts various actions to help pass the time but ultimately they are trapped in a wait without end and are forced to inhabit a circular structure of de-narrativised time. Time presents a list of problems in Beckett’s play causing panic, confusion and memory loss. This essay aims to discuss the various aspects of the play relating to the themes of time and waiting. This essay will…

Prospero’s speech is not finished. He concludes his metaphor for life as a play with the following words: “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on” (IV.i.173-174). By comparing the current events to a dream, he again recognizes his supposed reality as fiction, which stresses the unimportance of the play. How can he demean his supposed reality to a dream, and thus, fiction? The “how” is critical; it means Prospero must have a sense of something greater. To demean something is to, conversely,…

Eating is something all people need to do in order to stay alive. What they choose to eat is entirely up to them. Some choose to be vegetarian only eating plant-based products while others choose to dive into delicious and savory meats. Fogo De Chão Brazilian Steakhouse located on N. Scottsdale Road and E. Lincoln Drive is a restaurant to go when craving the non-vegetarian lifestyle. Vegetarians who are willing to venture out of their zone for one night would be the hardest audience to convince…