Waitng for godot? can you explain me it?

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Waitng for godot? can you explain me it?

Answer 1

"Waiting for Godot" is pretty much... anything you think it is.  I know, the answer sounds stupid, but it's true!  There are so many hundreds of interpretations, it would be foolish of me to claim that any one of them was 'correct'.

Religious: The 'character' Godot has often been seen as a representation of God; someone who everyone is waiting for, who everyone believes in, but who ultimately never shows up; never gives proof of his own existence at all.

Psychological: There's a common Freudian interpretation with Go-go being the SuperEgo and Di-Di being the Id.  They are constantly working against each other, but stick together in hopes that their missing piece - Godot (the ego, or mediator) will show up.

Existentialist: This strongly ties into the Theatre of the Absurd that TheatreDoc was talking about.  the whole concept that nothing truly has any sense or meaning behind it - that we are just objects colliding with one another.  The only thing separating us from an inanimate object is that we are conscious of this possibility.  Godot, in this case, would represent the matter of faith, or the reason behind things that actually doesn't exist... or at least, never appears.  Though I like all of these interpretations, I'm pretty partial to this one.

Political/WW2: Yep, World War 2.  I'm not quite sure about this one, but i've heard many times that the play is an allegory for the French Resistance of the n**i takeover.

There's probably a hundred more possibilities, but these are the only ones I'm really familiar with.

Ta!

-Tamora

Answer 2

The play that started the theatre of the absurd.  Man is depicted as an ineffectual, unable to accomplish anything being in a wasteland existence. Man is always waiting for the future and perhaps God to come and improve his lot, but it never happens. This nihlistic play is best accepted by audiences today as a comedy when played for laughs.